MICHAEL McGurk got his season off to a winning start in the charity Chest, Heart and Stroke competition at County Armagh.
After claiming fourth prize in the Spring League, Michael grabbed the top prize with the best score - 41 points - in the annual two-day stableford event.
He shared top score with S McGarvey (41pts), but Michael's impressive back- nine earned him the plaudits.
Handicap Convenor Brian McGuigan will do doubt have drawn teasing comments from playing partners after returning 41 points also. But he will have surely dismissed them all by explaining, it may have been the top score on the day, but it wasn't enough to win it! Brian did however, collect first prize in Category 1 where Adam Hunniford was runner up with 40 points.
Iggy Mallon won Category 2 with 40 points – his better back nine pipping Brendan Beagan to the prize.
And in Category 3 it was Shane O'Halleron's 40 points and better back which won the prize and denied in-form Norman Mallon who also recorded 40 points.
DEAN Chambers certainly enjoyed the rub of the green for an impressive win in the St Patrick's Day Open competition at County Armagh.
The club newcomer racked up a huge score of 45 points to take the first prize in the stableford event.
Philip Devlin would have expected to have topped the pile with 43 points on another day, but had to settle for the runners up prize.
In third place was Eric Hamilton whose 42 points was equalled by oft playing partner John Flack, beaten only in the back-nine countback.
JOHNNY Brown won of the 2016 Spring League at County Armagh Golf Club.
With a grand total of 127 points from his four rounds in the five-week league event, Johnny walked off with the top prize.
Greens Convenor Tom Calvert fell just three points short of winning – his 125 points total however, still earned the single figure handicapper a deserved runners up prize.
Paul McCreesh was just s further point behind in third place, his 124 beating both Michael McGurk and PJ Quinn who each returned 122 points.
1st Tom Fox 42 points (back 9)
2nd Jimmy Kelly 42 points (back 9)
Category 1
1st Mark Loughran 41 points
2nd Stephen Catterall 40 points
Category 2
1st Lee Kirrane 41 points (back 9)
2nd Paddy Loughran 41 points
Category 3
1st Malachy McSorley 42 points
2nd Henry Lyttle 39 points
Prize vouchers will be left for collection in the Pro Shop.
Competitions Convenor 2016.
1st M McGuirk 41PTS (back nine)
2ND S McGarvey 41pts ( back nine)
Cat 1
1st B McGuigan 41pts
2nd A Hunniford 40pts
Cat 2
1ST I Mallon 40pts (back nine)
2nd B Beagan 40pts
Cat 3
1st S O'Halloran 40pts (back nine)
2nd N Mallon 40pts (back nine)
Prize vouchers will be left in Pro. shop
Men
1st Dean Chambers 45pts.
2nd Philip Devlin 43pts.
3rd Eric Hamilton 42pts. (back nine)
4th John Fleck 42pts. (back nine)
Ladies
1st Vera Ellingham 38pts. (back nine)
2nd Teresa Corrigan 38pts
3rd Margaret Marjoram 35pts (back nine)
Prize vouchers will be left for collection in Pro. shop
1st A Hunniford 47 points
2nd M Daly 45 points
Category 1
1st S Catterall 43 points (back 9)
2nd A Woods 43 points
Category 2
1st C Black 43 points
2nd Ed Hughes 41 points
Category 3
1st J Rolston 43 points
2nd E Hamilton 40 points
Prize vouchers can be collected from the Pro Shop.
Competitions Convenor 2016.
1st G Lappin, L King, S McGarvey, N Dowzell 57pts.
2nd G Hughes, J Leer, M McParland, P Toner 54pts (back six)
3rd J Lowe, C McGerrigan, M Kernan, J Gartland 54pts.(back nine)