JESSICA ROSS EARNS TOP SEEDING FOR MATCH-PLAY STAGES

IRISH WOMEN’S CLOSE CHAMPIONSHIP
Enniscrone Golf Club, 14th – 17th June 2014
 
Jessica Ross (Donaghadee) impressed with a one-under-par 72 first round followed by a 75 to win the Leitrim Cup as leading qualifier on 147 at the Irish women's close amateur championship at Enniscrone Golf Club today.
Defending champion Paula Grant (Lisburn) finished second with 76-73 for 149 while Jessica Carty (Holywood) was third on 150 with a pair of 75s.
 Olivia Mehaffey, the 11th best qualifier with an aggregate of 158 (78-80), had a hole in one on the par 3 third in the first round and missed by inches to repeat the performance in the second round.
CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH-PLAY QUALIFIERS
Par 146 (2x73)  SSS 74 CSS 76 76



147 Jessica Ross (Donaghadee) 72 75
149 Paula Grant (Lisburn) 76 73
150 Jessica Carty (Holywood) 75 75
152 Chloe Ryan (Castletroy) 79 73
153 Mary Doyle (The Heath) 76 77, Amy Farrell (Moate) 75 78
155 Maria Dunne (Skerries) 79 76, Emma O'Driscoll (Ballybunion) 77 78
156 Jenny Maguire (Foxrock) 78 78, Sarah Helly (Enniscrone) 77 79 Mairead Martin (Killarney) 75 81
157 Karen Delaney (Carlow) 82 75, Barbara Cooney (Laytown and Bettystown) 76 81
158 Mary Dowling (New Ross) 78 80, Olivia Mehaffey (RCD Ladies) 78 80 Louise Coffey (Malone) 77 81
159 Gillian O'Leary (The Island) 79 80, Sarah Cunningham (Ennis) 76 83
160 Caitriona Griffin (Killarney) 80 80
161 Jean O'Driscoll (Muskerry) 86 75, Carol Wickham (Laytown and Bettystown) 80 81
162 Darcey Carr (Milltown) 82 80, Niamh Ward (Lurgan) 82 80
164 Aedin Murphy (Carlow) 82 82, Rachel Taylor (Laytown and Bettystown) 81 83, Ellie Metcalfe (Laytown and Bettystown) 81 83
165 Lucy Simpson (Massereene) 85 80, Carla Reynolds (Seapoint) 82 83, Niamh McSherry (Lurgan) 81 84, Victoria Craig (Royal Belfast) 80 85, Sinead Sexton (Lahinch) 79 86, Roisin Brady (Co. Louth) 77 88



 MATCH-PLAY DRAW
09:12 Ross v Brady     
09:21 O'Leary v Coffey     
09:30 Maguire v Murphy     
09:39 Taylor v Emma O'Driscoll    
09:48 Doyle v Reynolds    
09:57 Wickham v Delaney    

10:06 Cooney v Jean O'Driscoll    
10:15 McSherry v Ryan      
10:24 Carty v Craig     
10:33 Griffin v Dowling    
10:42 Martin v Carr      
10:51 Simpson v Farrell    
 
11:00 Dunne v Metcalfe     
11:09 Ward v Helly      
11:18 Mehaffey v Cunningham    
11:27 Sexton v Grant  


REST OF SCORES
166 Karen O'Neill (Douglas) 83 83
167 Anna Courtney (St. Anne's) 85 82, Valerie Clancy (Killarney) 82 85 Shannen Brown (The Heath) 82 85
168 Gertie McMullen (The Island) 88 80, Katie Aherne (Waterford Castle) 87 81
169 Nicole McGavisk (Donabate) 78 91
170 Gemma McCarthy (Clonmel) 91 79, Ciara Casey (Hermitage) 91 79 Vivienne Houston (City of Derry) 88 82, Maeve Rooney (Co. Sligo) 82 88
171 Meadhbh Doyle (Portarlington) 84 87
172 Shannon Burke (Ballinrobe) 86 86, Louise Mernagh (Woodenbridge) 83 89
173 Lisa O'Shea (Shannon) 87 86, Rachel Thompson (Cork) 85 88
175 Sophie Harrison (Killeen Castle) 90 85, Holly Robinson (Co. Sligo) 88 87
177 Aisling Parker (Greenore) 91 86, Orla Barry (Galway) 88 89
178 Rita McGoldrick (Enniscrone) 87 91
179 Christine Armanasco (Belturbet) 91 88
181 Clodagh Walsh (Castlewarden) 100 81, Caroline Hewitt (Courtown) 90 91
186 Deborah McCooke (Galgorm Castle) 93 93
191 Siobhan Forde (Gort) 89 102
193 Ruth Maguire (Corrstown) 94 99
194 Deirdre Malone (Beech Park) 98 96, Siobhan O'Connor (Gort) 97 97
208 Miriam Jordan (Cregmore Park) 105 103
NR  Cliodhna McCarthy (Stackstown)  

PLATE MATCH-PLAY DRAW 
(Ita Wallace Trophy) 
08.00: Clancy v Walsh.
08.09: Mernagh v Doyle
08.18: Casey v Parker
08.27: Barry v McGavisk
08.36: Aherne v McGoldrick
08.45: Harrison v Houston
08.54: Rooney v Thompson
09.03: Armanasco v McMullen