A NUMBER of County Armagh Golf Club teams have been in action in recent weeks.
The Jimmy Bruen and Pierce Purcell teams where each involved in Qualifiying events at Loughgall and Mannan Castle, respectively. Unfortunately neither made the grade. Competitions Convenor and Pierce Purcell team captain Declan McReynolds saw his men narrowly fail to qualify – by 6 shots – at Mannan.In the alternative shots competition, the pairs representing the club were Gary Baird and Ian Millar, Seamus Toner and Eamon O’Hagan, Paul Wasson and Nelson Weir, Tommy Mackin and Brendan McKinney and Keith Stewart and Gary Livingstone.
However, the Ulster Fourball team are firm favourites to progress following a 4-1 win against Strabane in the first leg in Armagh. In Gerry Kelly’s team, Gerry Doyle and Anthony Fagan, Paul Quinn and Philip Devlin, Leslie Lynas and Pat Hughes and Shane O’Halleron and Davy Spratt all recorded wins with Eamon Toner and Tim Teehan narrowly defeated. They play the return leg in Strabane this Sunday.