Jimmy and Gordon win HOPE03 tournament

Last Friday, Rockmount Golf Club welcomed members and friends of the HOPE03 (Help Overcome Poverty Everywhere) charity for their bi-annual Golf Classic.
By The Newsroom
Published 12th Jun 2014, 19:55 BST
Peter O'Hara Chairman of competition charity HOPE03 (left) with winners Jimmy Robinson and Gordon Goodfellow and their prizes. Also pictures is Paul Banford Captain of Rockmount Golf Club (second right).Peter O'Hara Chairman of competition charity HOPE03 (left) with winners Jimmy Robinson and Gordon Goodfellow and their prizes. Also pictures is Paul Banford Captain of Rockmount Golf Club (second right).
Peter O'Hara Chairman of competition charity HOPE03 (left) with winners Jimmy Robinson and Gordon Goodfellow and their prizes. Also pictures is Paul Banford Captain of Rockmount Golf Club (second right).

HOPE03 was founded in 2003 by five business people from Carryduff and have in the last 10 years raised in excess of £100,000 to support various projects around the world.

Peter O’Hara Chairman of HOPE 03 said: “This year’s beneficiaries from funds raised through the Golf Classic will be split between The Welcome Organisation and Extern’s Ormeau Shelter, both based in Belfast. These two organisations help to alleviate the distress caused by homelessness and rough sleeping.”

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Nearly 100 golfers took part and they enjoyed the superb course and the fine weather.

The format of the tournament was four-ball better-ball and the winners with a tremendous score of 51 points were local members Jimmy Robinson and Gordon Goodfellow.

peter woods competition

Saturday’s competition was the Peter Woods sponsored stroke competition.

The weather wasn’t kind to the morning competitors but the scoring was good. Four players shared the best nett score of 69.

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First place went to Darren McClure (08) with an excellent score in the conditions. Second place went to Derek Andrews (13). The low section (0 – 11) was won by Henry Moore (08) with a nett 72. The middle section was won by Colin Marshall (17) also with a nett 69.

Darren McClure also had the best gross on the day (77) but as he had already won, the prize went to seven handicapper Pete Coffey who had a seven over par round of 79.