Bernard is the President's man

Editorial Department • Published 10 Sep 2009 09:00 0 Comments

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President's Prize at Fintona

As most of know the golfing conditions were atrocious last Friday afternoon for those competing for Jim Robertson's President's prize in Fintona. The course was barely playable but the 40 brave souls kept going and all but two returned cards. The best score on Friday was 38 points but the Saturday players had improving conditions and indeed quite pleasant at times in the afternoon.

However, the scoring was never going to be wonderful with the greens much faster than usual and tough pin positions on seven, eight and nine in particular. Davy Abraham who put the pins there managed 39 points but this score was bettered by the top three winners. Leo Mc Bride had 40, Fran McAtee had 40 but the man winning the President's Prize for 2009 was Bernard Donnelly with 42 points. Ryan Cunningham won the gross prize again with a one over par score of 73 on the Friday. The ladies played on Tuesday and Maggie Mullan won with 35, one ahead of Dympna Franey. The juveniles competed on the previous Monday with Ben Peace winning the U14 handicap section and Marius Monaghan taking the honours in the over 14 section.

Jim presented his array of prizes in font of a large crowd on Saturday evening anD was a happy man that everyone had made the effort to support him over the two days.The full list of winners is as follows: - 1st Bernard Donnelly, 42; 2nd Fran McAtee , 40; 3rd Leo McBride, 40; Gross Ryan Cuningham, 35 gross points; 4th Davy Abraham 39; 5th Dara McCullagh 38; 6th Chris Boyd, 38; 7th Pat Donnelly, 38; 8th Colwyn Clougherty, 38; 9th Jim Franey, 38; 10th Paul Donnelly, 38; Past president Hugh Corry, 34; Council Andrew Montague, 37; Guest Derrick Jobb, 31; 1st nine Richard Keys, 20; 2nd nine Declan O'Hagan, 22; 1st Senior Juvenile Ben Peace, 40; 2nd Pauric Toal 38; 1st Juniour Juvenile Marius Monaghan, 44; 2nd Peter Henry 37; Ladies 1st Margaret Mullan 35; 2nd Dympna Franey 34.

It is Lady President, Mary McAleer's day on Saturday and the men are invited to play in the evening. The rescheduled McAtee Cup, sponsored by Vincent McCarney is on Sunday. Juveniles please make the effort to play and it is open to juveniles from other clubs - local juvenile convenors will have received a circular last week. Please note that Richard Keys has se up a website for us and it is well worth a look. Richard has very kindly set this up and also keeps it up-to-date for us. The web address is www.fintonagolfclub.com.

This article appeared in Impartial Reporter 10 Sep 09

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