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From left: Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Meryem, Ariya Jutanugarn, winner of the Lalla Meryem Cup and His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid, President of the Hassan II Golf Trophy Association   Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn secured her first professional title at the Lalla Meryem Cup after a battle of the teenagers in Agadir. The 17-year-old rookie from Bangkok, who won the LET’s Lalla Aicha Tour School in Marrakech in December, again displayed her remarkable talent when she came ...

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    Irish Schools Championship – Charleville Golf Club The Munster qualifiers for the Irish Schools Senior & Junior Cups were played at Charleville on Monday 8 April. Results: SENIOR CUP 49 gross pts Loreto Clonmel: Gemma Mc Carthy [5] & Abbie Kiely [13] 43 gross pts Mount Mercy Cork:Jean O Driscoll [1] Hillary O Driscoll [18] & Jennifer Kilcoyne [28] 74 nett pts St Marys Charleville: Helena Walsh [27] Katherina White [33] & Sarah Hawe [35] Individual 32 gross pts. Presentation Milltown: ...

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  RESULTS; 18 holes  Scotch Foursomes 1st:    Georgia Carr (Milltown) & Kate Dwyer (Rossmore) 2nd:   Laura Cody  (Balbriggan) & Nicole Mc Gavisk (Donabate) 3rd:    Leah Temple Lang (Seapoint) & Laure Walsh (Castlewarden) Longest drive:   Clodagh Walsh  Castlewarden 9 Hole Scramble 1st: Caitlin Sherin  (Killiney), Aimee Kielty  (Laytown & Bettystown) & Eimear Curtin      (Dundalk) 2nd: Caoimhe Byrne   Aine Grennan  & Jane Connolly (Dundalk) 3rd: Fiona Mc Partlin (St Anne’s), Kate Flood (St Anne’s) & Laura Fleming (Glencullen) 5 Hole Scramble 1st: Emma Jane Power (Donabate),  Maeve ...

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    Winners of the Adult Girls competition  were  Annabel Wilson (Lurgan) and Victoria Alexander (Holywood) – 35 points (Lady Captain Anne Knox, Lurgan pictured with winners) In second place Maeve Cummins (Lurgan) and Katrina Bradford (Lurgan) with 35 points   9 Hole Competition 1st Maeve McKavanagh (Lurgan) and Cara Murphy (Lurgan) – 13 points  

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  Lisburn’s Paula Grant (pictured with Gary Hurley) won the prestigeous R&A Foundation Scholars Tournament over The Eden and Old Course at St. Andrews, 8-9 April. Leading the field by 7 strokes overnight, after two very impressive 68s, Paula’s lead was slashed to just one stroke after Kelsey MacDonald (Stirling) closed with a 71. Paula held on for the narrowest of victories with a 77 for 213.The 19 year-old from Lisburn was playing her first round on ...

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  Mid West Ladies Golf Society held its Inaugural Golf Outing at Rathbane Golf Club on Sunday April 7.  Despite the Baltic weather conditions and the clash of fixtures with the Munster Harlequins game, fifteen ladies braved the elements in what went on to be a terrific afternoon.  Fun, Friendly, Sociable golf was the order of the day and this theme was certainly evident in the clubhouse afterwards. The team of three 9 hole scramble was won ...

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        Royal Portrush’s Stephanie Meadow  came of age firing a one under par 71 in the third round at the Kraft Nabisco LPGA tour event at Mission Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California. After bogeying four of her first 7 holes on Saturday morning, Stephanie showed true character to knuckle down and birdie 5 of her remaining 10 holes to see her into the top 40 going into Sunday’s final round.  Birdies at 9, 11, 13, 16 and ...

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Ulster won the Interprovincial Matches from Leinster at Castle Dargan Co.Sligo.  In a tense final afternoon, both teams secured two and a half points overall but Ulster took the title on matches won, 20 against 19 from Leinster. Final Points Table Ulster 2½ (20 matches won) Leinster 2½ (19 matches won) Munster 1 Connacht 0 Day 3 – Friday 5th April Leinster knew they needed to beat Connacht by a handsome margin in order to have any chance of retaining their title and started well ...

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RCD Ladies’ Olivia Mehaffey  leads the Irish Challenge after an opening 73 at the weather delayed Scottish U16 Girls Open Strokeplay at Strathmore, 4-5 April 2013. Mehaffey birdied the 2nd and 12th and then solidly parred the last 4 holes to lie just one stroke behind leader Alice Hewson (ENG) after she birdied the last to sign for a level par 72. Julie McCarthy (Forrest Little), Victoria Craig (Clandeboye) and Gemma McCarthy (Clonmel) all signed for 77 ...

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Lady Captain Robena McCandless and Mr. Captain Declan Dooher arrived in style at  Banbridge Golf Club on St. Patricks Day to celebrate 100 years, of the Club’s founding. The course was opened for play on 17th March 1913 and was officially opened on 4th June 1913 by the Earl of Annesley who performed the ceremony before driving the first ball. The Ladies Branch had their first AGM on June 2nd, 1912 were Mrs. Wilson Smyth was elected ...

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