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Kieran lifts CP McNabb Trophy

KIERAN Grimley kicked on his golfing season at County Armagh by winning the magnificent CP McNabb Trophy.

One of the oldest of the club trophies, the CP McNabb is always keenly sought after in what has annually become the first major stableford competition of the golfing calendar.

Kieran returned a winning score of 43 stableford points to secure his victory – although it did take a count-back to separate him and Brendan McKinney who returned a similar 43 points.

Playing off a handicap of 11, a birdie three at the first hole got Kieran off to the best possible start, and despite a no-score at the seventh hole, he had racked up 22 points by the turn.

That excellent form continued through the back nine where he birdied the 12 th hole but almost blew it on the 18 th where a double bogey six saw him add just a single point to his tally.

But it was an important point which saw off Brendan McKinney – playing of a handicap of 17 - in the count- back.

Brendan, impressively bagged 23 points from his front nine and added a further 20 on the back nine which earned him the runners up prize.

Ten-handicapper Anthony Farrell claimed the Category 1 first prize with 42 points, two ahead of runner up Andrew Dunwoody on 40 points.

Davy Spratt picked up his second prize in a week with 42 points securing first place in Category 2, again two points separated first and second, Eamon McVeigh the runner up on this occasion with 40 points.

And Ulster Fourball team captain Tim Teehan set a good example to colleagues returning 42 points to take the honours in Category 3m, with Gerard McCoy losing out on countback after returning an equally impressive 42 points.

1st K Grimley 43pts

2nd B McKinney 43pts

Category 1

1st A Farrell 42pts

2nd A Dunwoody 40pts

Category 2

1st D Spratt 42pts

2nd E McVeigh 40pts

Category 3

1st T Teaham 42pts

2nd G McCoy 42pts

Gross C McGurgan 36pts

Nathan Grimley lifted the magnificent CP McNabb trophy on behalf of his father Kieran who won the season's first major competition at County Armagh Golf Club. He is pictured with Club Captain Pat McAleavey, and runners up Tim Teehan and Davy Spratt

Details: Parent Category: News & Results; Category: Men - News & Results; Created: 30 March 2014

Close run thing for Andrew

The finite margins between victory and defeat are all too familiar to Andrew Rennie as a former wicket-keeper with Armagh Cricket Club.

And on the golf course too he's now discovering that philosophy can equally be applied.

Fortunately however, he was on the side of victory in the recent Chest Heart and Stroke charity stableford competition at County Armagh in which he emerged as the eventual winner after a very detailed count-back involving seven-handicapper Philip Kelly after both players returned 41 points.

Both chalked up 21 points from the front nine holes – Philip impressively with birdie twos at the third, sixth and ninth holes. And they couldn't be separated either on the back nine with both adding a further 20 points – Philip registering a further birdie three at the 15 th .

Nigel McMahon's 40 points from his round which included a birde four at the par five 10 th hole and a no-score at 13 th , earned him first prize in Category 1, just pipping Roy Turner on count-back. Roy too was on birdie trail at the first and second holes.

Davy Spratt meanwhile, bagged the first of what was to be back-to-back category wins withn a seven day period, his 39 points securing him the prize, on count-back with PJ Quinn.

And Martin Kelly's 39 points won Category 3 where Gerry Doyle was runner up with a similar 39 points, losing out on count-back

1st Overall Andrew Rennie 41pts

2nd Overall Philip Kelly 41pts

Category 1

1st Nigel McMahon 40pts

2nd Roy Turner 40pts

Category 2

1st David Spratt 39pts

2ndnd PJ Quinn 39pts

Category 3

1st Martin Kelly 39pts

2nd Gerry Doyle 39pts

Best Stableford Gross Score: Shea Smyth

County Armagh Golf Club Captain Pat McAleavey is pictured with winners of the Chest, Heart and Stroke stableford competition (from left to right) Philip Kelly, Gerry Doyle Davy Spratt and Nigel McMahon

Details: Parent Category: News & Results; Category: Men - News & Results; Created: 24 March 2014

Men

1st Lee Stewart 41pts (best back nine)

2nd Paul Corvan 41pts

3rd Gerry Doyle 40pts (best back nine)

4th Roy Turner 40pts

Ladies

1st Nicola Spence 44pts

2nd Brigid McEneaney 40pts

3rd Gail Steed 38pts (best back nine)

Visitor Prizes

1st K MCKenna (Kilcock Golf Club)

County Armagh Golf Club Past Captain John Flack presents Nicola Spence with her prize after winning the Ladies Section of the recent St Patrick's Day Ladies and Gents Open. Lee Stewart (right) won the Gents prize and Roy Turner (left) was runner up.

Details: Parent Category: News & Results; Category: Men - News & Results; Created: 19 March 2014

1st Paul Corvan 41 pts

Men - News & Results

Results CP McNabb Trophy

Chest,Heart & Stroke Competition 22nd & 23rd Mar

St Patrick's Open Results

Results Club Stableford Sun 16th Mar

Results 4 Ball Eclectic Sat 15th Mar 14

Results Club Stableford Sun 9th Mar 14

St Patrick's Ladies & Gents Open Stableford

Result 4 Ball Scramble Sat 8th Mar 14