Historic weekend for Lambeg GC

After making some shrewd selections, Team Captain and President, Brian Bates was delighted with his teams performance in a day full of heavy showers and sometimes windy conditions.

Fourteen teams received a warm welcome and by the look of some of the scores, quite a few were taken by surprise by just how difficult this short course can be.

Considering the weather, the course was in tip-top condition and there were very few negative reports with most teams praising the course rather than criticising it.

It was four local teams, within a five mile radius of Lambeg, who returned with the best scores and qualified.

The results were as follows: 1st Balmoral G.C. 309, 2nd Dunmurry G.C. 315, 3rd Lambeg G.C. 321 and 4th Malone G.C. 326.

Balmoral play Malone at Aberdelghy in the next round and Dunmurry play Lambeg at Malone before June 2.

This week’s home competiton was for the Brendan Connolly Memorial trophy and was won by James Harrup (17) with an unbelievable 44 pts.

James never hit worse than a five in his whole round and with only one double bogey in the front nine, he made the turn with 20 pts.

The back nine was very impressive with seven pars, a birdie and one single bogey to give him a brilliant 24 pts and the winning total of 44 pts. John Oakes (10) came second with a very steady 42 pts.

A double bogey at the 3rd was his only blip but he made amends with five pars in a row before the turn.

The back nine included three magnificent birdies at holes 14, 15 and 17.

John Leydon, (24) finished in third position with 41 pts.

John has been gradually creeping back to form after recovering from a back injury last year. His score could have been even better but for the triple bogeys at the 3rd and 10th.

Ivor Harron won the Best Gross with 71.