Agnew wins Clarke Contracts competition at Galgorm

GALGORM Castle Golf Club was the venue for the Clarke Contracts sponsored Stableford competition.

There was a triple tie for the lead at the halfway mark between Kevin Agnew (22), Brendan Clarke (11) and Colin Steele (4). William McKigney (24) was three points away followed by James Taylor (9) another two points behind.

Through thirteen Agnew and Clarke continued to lead but Steele had fallen back two points – the result of a ‘ding’ on ten.

McKigney was a point behind Steele with Taylor still in arrear another two points away. With two holes left to play Agnewwas one point ahead of Clarke with McKigney and Steele holding on another two points behind.

Taylor was unable to make any inroads and was another point down. McKigney finished strongly (bogey, par) but his attempt just failed to catch Agnew (bogey, bogey) who held on to win by one point.

Clarke (bogey, par) finished level with McKigney but with a better back nine the latter finished runner-up. Clarke won Division 1 and Steele (bogey, par) and Taylor (bogey, par) finished level three points behind but with a better back nine Taylor came second.

Division 2 at the turn saw Brian McFall jnr. in the lead by two points from Campbell McAnally (12) followed by Gary Crabbe (14) another point down. Through thirteen McAnally had moved up to join McFall jnr. With Crabbe two points behind.

Crabbe with a birdie over Beechers moved up to join McAnally with McFall jnr. one point behind. McAnally came home par, bogey, par to win by two points from Crabbe (bogey, double bogey, par) and McFall jnr. (bogey, double bogey, birdie) who finished level but with a better back nine Crabbe finished in second place.

Richard Rainey (21) was one point ahead of David Rainey (25) and Brian McFall (28) starting the back nine in Division 3. William Crawford (22) was another point away.

Coming to the fourteenth tee Crawford (‘ding’ at ten) and Richard Rainey were three points behind McFall. At this point David Rainey was one point ahead of McFall. Into the Lowlands D Rainey fell at Beechers and this allowed R Rainey with the help of birdie at the same hole to close the gap to within one point.

Crawford was another point behind followed by McFall who lost ground after a ‘ding’ on sixteen. D Rainey ran into bogey trouble over the closing two holes and had an anxious wait to find out if he had held on.

Crawford, McFall and R.Rainey also ran into bogey trouble and although finishing level they failed by one point to catch D.Rainey. Second place went to Crawford with a better back nine.

The Gross winner was Jordan Hood (-1) and Michael Montgomery (15) won the Seniors.

Twos were recorded by: J Taylor, A Atkinson, B Clarke, M Dunlop, J Hood, K Kempton, G McCooke, G Small, C Steele, P Coleman, W Wilson, J McCart, P Stewart, K Agnew, B Heggarty, R Bennett, D Rainey, I Stewart and D King.