KAREN DELANEY WINS LAHINCH SCRATCH CUP AFTER COUNTBACK

FROM THE IRISH LADIES GOLF UNION WEBSITE

Carlow's Carlow's Karen Delaney won the fifth Scratch Cup of 2012 following a card countback after Leinster team-mate Mary Dowling (New Ross) matched her 36 hole total at Lahinch.
Trailing Dowling by twp strokes at lunchtime, Former Irish champion Delaney, pictured at last year's Home Internationals at Hillside, turned the tables with an afternoon 73 while Dowling matched Delaney's 75 in the morning.

Leinster stalwart Deirdre Smith (Co. Louth) finished third after rounds of 77 and 74 while Munster's Aoife Lowry (Tipperary) was one shot further back in fourth.
FINAL TOTALS

CSS 75 75148 Karen Delaney 75 73 Mary Dowling 73 75 (Delaney won by virtue of having the better second round).
151 Deirdre Smith 77 74
152 Aoife Lowry 79 73
155 Olivia Mehaffey 77 78
158 Sinead Sexton 80 78
159 Jennifer Gannon 78 81
161 Amy Farrell 86 75
162 Niamh Ward 79 83
163 Hannah Henderson 84 79 Anna Courtney 82 81
165 Anne McCormack 82 83
166 Orla Barry 85 81
167 Mary Geaney 84 83 Jenny Hennessy 79 88 Elayne Hickey 78 89
168 Rosemary Howell 83 85
169 Roisin Collins 82 87
170 Valerie Shannon 85 85
171 Marie Therese Eustace 85 86 Carmel Kearney 84 87
173 Miriam Abernethy 86 87
174 Mary Doyle 87 87
175 Valerie Hassett 88 87 Fiona Corbett 85 90 Grainne D’Alton 83 92
177 Catherine Bird 87 90 Patsy McCarthy 87 90 Olivia Lucas 83 94
180 Tara Whelan 95 85 Jessie Anthony 94 86
183 Angela Cullinan 97 86 Madeleine Brennan 95 88 Lillian Harrington 91 92
185 Ethna Leonard 96 89 Kay Bermingham 94 91
186 Fidelma O’Connor 90 96
189 Catherine Kavanagh 96 93
190 Maureen Creedon 91 99 Marian Finn 89 101
191 Geraldine Galvin 98 93 Ruth Maguire 97 94 Bernie Cox 93 98
192 Ber O’Shea 95 97 Muiriosa Connolly 92 100
193 Anita Carey 101 92
194 Deirdre Malone 94 100
199 Siobhan O’Mahony 96 103
200 Eileen Healy 97 103
201 Marie O’Brien 100 101 Lorraine O’Keefe 99 102
211 Breda Farrell 104 107
213 Agnes Duggan 109 104
218 Angela Goggin 118 100 Josephine Moran 100 118
NR Jean MurphyWright 86 NR Deirdre O’Brien 95 NR Teresa Down 112 NR