30-07-2025
Kerry pitch and putt teams come up short at Munster U-16 inter-county championship
The 'Gold' team of Aodhan O'Halloran, Fionn McMonagle, Thomas Keane and Tommy Daly fought hard to keep Kerry's winning run since 2017 going but their combined total of seven over par was only good enough for third place behind the winning Cork 'Red' side and Tipperary 'Blue' who finished in second.
The Kerry 'Green' and 'White' teams acquitted themselves well on a tricky Crosshaven course in Cork as there was some consolation in Aodhan O'Halloran and Fionn McMonagle finishing second and third in the Boys 8-12 category respectively with scores of one and two over par.
The 'White' team's players were Ruairí Turbinski, Joey Blake, Sean Stack and James Gould while the 'Green' team was represented by Fionn O'Callaghan, Thomas O'Sullivan, Diarmuid Lyons and Daniel Quinlan.
Elsewhere, the National Men's Strokeplay Qualifiers took place last Friday in Tralee with the places for the finals in St Annes in Cork decided.
Joining Tralee's Jason O'Regan, who is automatic this year as the 2024 Senior runner-up, are Damien Fleming of Deerpark, who shot 17 under par, Darren Goodall (Tralee) 14 under, Jason Cregan 13 under, Michael Conway with -8, Jamie Blake -7 and Chris Gibney of Listowel who got the last spot on countback with -6.
The Intermediates were headed by Michael Creagh on -8 as his club-mate Tony Blake shot -7. Deerpark's Ger O'Connor was next on -5 followed by Tralee's Padraig Hobbart on -4 with Deerpark's Cillian Courtney and Listowel's Bobby McCarron both shooting -3. Reece Sugrue claimed the final spot on countback with -2.
The Junior event also needed countback to decide the last two spots, meaning all three grades needed a trawl through the cards, Robbie Harnett of Deerpark and Gavin Dillane of Tralee (both +5) were successful in the countback as the two players ahead of them were Ajay Barrett of Listowel on +2 and Robbie O'Connor of Tralee on +3.
This weekend the action takes place on the Bank Holiday Monday with the Paul O'Sullivan Memorial Scratch Cup in Tralee. Contact 087 6403417.
