PAULA GRANT WINS HERMITAGE LADIES SCRATCH CUP

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Paula Grant (Lisburn) joined a hostful of legends when she won the 41st Hermitage Ladies Scratch Cup, kindly sponsored by Dermot Kelly Ltd., at a chilly but dry Hermitage Golf Club on Sunday 6th May
Trailing Mary Dowling’s (New Ross) sensational 69 at lunchtime, Grant (pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency at the 2011 Women's Home Internationals) mastered the undulating greens in the afternoon to sign for a 2 under the card 71 while Dowling dropped 3 strokes for a 76. Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) leapfrogged the field with a best-of-the-afternoon three-under-par 70 to join Dowling in second while Co. Louth’s Deirdre Smith holed her five-wood approach at the long 16th for eagle to share fourth with an ever improving Maria Dunne (Skerries) who is enjoying a re-surgence to form at top ladies level.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 146 (2x73) CSS 75 75
144 Paula Grant (Lisburn) 71 73
145 Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) 75 70 Mary Dowling (New Ross) 69 76
150 Deirdre Smith (Co. Louth) 75 75 Maria Dunne (Skerries) 72 78
151 Emma O'Driscoll (Ballybunion) 76 75
152 Patrice Delaney (Birr) 78 74 Amy Farrell (Moate) 77 75 Jessica Carty (Holywood) 76 76
153 Gillian O'Leary (Cork) 76 77
154 Ariana Coyle Diez (Elm Park) 74 80
155 Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) 75 80
156 Gertie McMullan (The Island) 79 77
158 Alison Taylor (Malahide) 82 76 Louise Mernagh (Woodenbridge) 79 79 Aoife Lowry (Tipperary) 78 80 Pat Doran (Donabate) 78 80
159 Carla Reynolds (Seapoint) 80 79 Maria O'Reilly (Headfort) 80 79 Helen Jones (Strabane) 77 82
161 Chloe Weir (Shandon Park) 83 78
162 Shannen Brown (The Heath) 78 84
163 Aedín Murphy (Carlow) 86 77 Olivia Mehaffey (Royal Co Down) 86 77 Zoe Allen (Lurgan) 83 80 Julie McCarthy (Forrest Little) 82 81 Mary Doyle (The Heath) 82 81
164 Sue Philips (Woodbrook) 83 81 Carmel Cahill (Hermitage) 81 83 Roisin Brady (Co. Louth) 81 83 Sheena McElroy (Grange) 81 83 Rebecca O'Regan (Newlands) 80 84 Suzie Hayes (Hermitage) 77 87
165 Laura Doherty (Howth) 84 81
166 Fiona Carroll (Galway Bay) 84 82 Niamh McSherry (Lurgan) 84 82 Marie Therese Eustace (Hermitage) 82 84 Mary Duane (Hermitage) 81 85 Pauline Walsh (Headfort) 81 85
167 Lynda Maher (Charleville) 88 79 Valerie Hassett (Ennis) 87 80 Lily Owens (Malahide) 86 81 Jennifer Hickey (Doneraile) 83 84
168 Hannah Henderson (Ballyclare) 88 80 Fiona Farrell (Skerries) 84 84168 Marilyn Henderson (Royal Belfast) 84 84 Roisin Collins (Black Bush) 83 85 Sinead Sexton (Lahinch) 78 90
169 Niamh Ward (Lurgan) 85 84 Anna Courtney (St. Annes) 84 85 Niamh Giblin (Dun Laoghaire) 79 90
170 Victoria Craig (Clandeboye) 86 84
171 Marian Finn (Thurles) 80 91
172 Aisling Parker (Greenore) 87 85
173 Ruth Maguire (Corrstown) 89 84 Madelaine Brennan (Carlow) 86 87 Rosemary Kavanagh (Wicklow) 86 87 Niamh Prendeville (Hermitage) 84 89
174 Sandra McCaffrey (Lucan) 86 88
175 Valerie Shannon (Lahinch) 83 92
177 Nicola Coffey (Woodbrook) 85 92
178 Janet Wilson (Royal Balfast) 91 87
179 Darcey Carr (Milltown) 94 85 Mai Tan (Dun Laoghaire) 87 92 Catherine Kavanagh (Mitchelstown) 85 94
180 Meadhbh Doyle (Portarlington) 97 83
181 Aisling Brennan (Hermitage) 91 90 Valerie Cotter (Powerscourt) 90 91
183 Bernie Cox (Carlow) 90 93 Deirdre Malone (Beech Park) 90 93
191 Clodagh Hopkins (Woodbrook) 98 93
193 Heidi Simpson (Royal Portrush) 100 93
NRs Suzy Sheehan (The Island) 85 NR, Viv Johnston (Castle) 93 NR, Ita Donnelly (Dundalk) 95 NR