Dundalk Golf Club

CAOLAN Rafferty won the Dundalk Scratch sponsored by One Finance for the fourth time since 2016. Heavy rain saw the 60th staging of this prestigious event reduced to 18 holes but Rafferty was already four shots clear of the field at that stage having shot a five-under par 67 in the ever-deteriorating weather conditions. He […]

The 60th staging of the Dundalk Scratch Cup sponsored by One Finance will take place this Sunday. Both rounds of the 36 hole event will have shotgun starts with the first round starting at 9.30am. As usual the event has attracted some of Ireland’s top amateur golfers including the recently crowned Irish Close Champion Quentin […]

Dundalk Golf Club captured the Leinster North Junior Cup pennant on Saturday at St Margaret’s when they proved too strong Laytown & Bettystown as they ran out 4-1 winners. The win sends Dundalk into the All-Ireland series for the first time since 2015 when they lost to Westport in the semi-final and makes up for […]

Journalist James Rogers found himself the centre of the story and making all the headlines as he romped to victory in Eoin Doohan’s Captain’s Prize at Dundalk Golf Club over the weekend. The competition, which attracted 360 entrants, saw qualifying rounds being played on Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning with the top 21 players teeing […]

The Wednesday Open sponsored by Deluxe Bathrooms is part and parcel of the golfing season and last week’s competition which was won by Larry Curtin was a high scoring affair. Playing off 22, Curtin shot 42pts to finished ahead of three players who were tied on 41pts. The foundation for his score was laid on […]

The final event of the Summer Open was a Singles Stableford which was won by Warrenpoint’s Davide Duffin.   Playing off five he shot 41pts to beat Bernard Crombie (19) from Corballis on countback thanks to his 22pts down the back nine. After opening with three pars, Duffin bogeyed the next two holes before regaining […]

Wednesday, July 6 – Deluxe Bathrooms Open Singles Stableford – Overall: Larry Curtin (22) 42pts, John Clarke (12) 41/20pts, Paul O’Hare (29) 41/19/14pts. Division  1: Edward Rogers (4) 36pts. Division 2: Frank P Byrne (11). 41/19/11pts. Division 3: Michael J Keating (21) 39pts. Gross Recognition: Garrett Duffy (1) 34pts.

Deirdre Smith went one better than last year when she won the Women’s Senior Close Championship at Thurles last Friday. After finishing as leading qualifier in Wesport in 2021, Smith had to settle for being runner-up to Carol Wickham after the Laytown & Bettystown player defeated her 3&2 in the final. She headed to […]

Aidan McBride won the Intermediate Scratch Cup and Aidan Rice won the Minor Scratch Cup at Dundalk Golf Club on Saturday. McBride, a 10 handicapper who is a member of the Provincial Towns Cup team, had three shots to spare over Vincent Jackson in second place and Danny Gallagher in third. Conor Murray (16) took […]

Teenager Eoin Purton won the Oriel Cup, sponsored by Moran CCTV, Dundalk, last Wednesday with an excellent nett score of 66 off six. He went out in 35 nett after eight pars and a double bogey six at the eighth. That was to be the only blemish on an otherwise fine card as he had […]