MIELE ALL-IRELAND LADIES INTERCLUB FOURBALL

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MOUNT JULIET GOLF CLUB

15-16 SEPTEMBER 2007

MOUNTBELLEW CROWNED ALL-IRELAND CHAMPIONS

17th September 2007

Mountbellew were crowned All-Ireland Ladies Fourball Champions following a narrowest of margin 1 hole victory over Mallow at the finals of the 2007 Miele All-Ireland Interclub Fourball Championships at Mount Juliet Golf Club, 16th September.

In a nail-biting affair, Carmel Kearney and Angela Goggin drew first blood for the Cork side when they closed out Margaret Harkin and Mary Hyland on the home green. Bernadette Barrett and Laura Farrell then gave Mountbellew the advantage when they registered an impressive 5 and 4 win over Nora O’Connor and Ann O’Sullivan. Mallow then gained a 2-1 advantage with Marie O’Sullivan and Ann Kennelly’s defeat of Aoife Fallon and Mary Farrell on the fourteenth green. With Mallow one match ahead and 1 hole up on aggregate, Mountbellew’s final pairing of Laura Burke and Mary Costello brought the title across the Shannon following a seventeenth hole victory over Susan Curtain and Mary McEvoy to turn the tables and register a 1 hole aggregate victory for Mountbellew.

In Saturday’s semi-finals, Mallow defeated a luckless Co. Armagh side by 3½ -½ while Mountbellew were pushed all the way to the eighteenth in two matches by The K Club, eventually registering a 3-1 victory.

Mountbellew now emerge from 231 clubs as 2007 National Fourball Champions, joining the elite brigade of past winners Castle (2006 and 2005) and Roscommon (2004).


FINALS- Mount Juliet Golf Club, 16 September
MOUNTBELLEW 2 MALLOW 2 (Mountbellew win by 1 hole on countback)
Margaret Harkin, Mary Hyland lost to Carmel Kearney, Angela Goggin 1up
Laura Burke, Mary Costello bt Susan Curtain, Mary McEvoy 2 and 1
Aoife Fallon, Mary Farrell lost to Marie O’Sullivan, Ann Kennelly 5 and 4
Bernadette Barrett, Laura Farrell bt Nora O’Connor, Ann O’Sullivan 5 and 4

SEMI_FINALS - Mount Juliet Golf Club, 15 September
MALLOW 3½ CO. ARMAGH ½
Carmel Kearney, Angela Goggin bt Emma Oliver, Carolyn McCall 3 and 2
Susan Curtain, Mary McEvoy halved with Barbara Gartland, Valerie Gordon
Marie O’Sullivan, Ann Kennelly bt Paula McCrory, Teresa McVeigh 5 and 3
Nora O’Connor, Ann O’Sullivan bt Ellen Brady, Geraldine Rafferty 3and 2

MOUNTBELLEW 3 THE K CLUB 1
Margaret Harkin, Mary Hyland bt Noreen O’Grady, Pat Desmond 3 and 2
Laura Burke, Mary Costello bt Rosaleen Cunningham, Beryl Bowden 2 and 1
Aoife Fallon, Mary Farrell halved with Karena O’Connor, Lou Soden
Bernadette Barrett, Laura Farrell halved with Alice Doyle, Trish Lacey