Club Championship

The second qualifying round for the Club Championship ( which is played for the Stephen Cahill trophy ) took place over the weekend.

With the defending champion, David Byrne out of the country the qualifying was lead by Shane O’Connor after round 1 ( gross 69 ).  Shane followed this up with another excellent round of golf yesterday shooting 68 gross to enter the draw as leading qualifier.  Eddie Lonergan followed his first round 72 with a 69 to qualify in second place.  Alan Keane and Jason Hackman followed indifferent rounds by their high standards in round 1 ( 78 & 79 ) with a 71 and 73 to qualify in 5th and 8th spots respectively.  Last year’s beaten finalist, Diarmuid MacGabhann lost out on a count-back for 8th place as did Chris Boylan.  As in previous years, 1st plays 8th, 2nd plays 7th, 3rd plays 6th and 4th plays 5th in the first round.

Full list of qualifiers –

Shane O’Connor            69 + 68 = 137

Eddie Lonergan             72 + 69 = 141

Daniel O’Byrne              74 + 69 = 143

Harry Kirk                      74 + 74 = 148

Alan Keane                     78 + 71 = 149

Ray Crotty                      76 + 75 = 151

Niall Gaffney                  74 + 77 = 151

Jason Hackman            79 + 73 = 152