No joy for young Meath golfer on final day

Successive rounds of 77 yesterday proved costly for Killeen Castle's Daire Creavin as he saw a four-shot lead slip at the Leinster Boys' Amateur Open Championship at Co Meath.


Creavin was the leader after the first two rounds on Wednesday - 70 and 69 on the par 73 course - to go four shots clear of Castle's (Rathfarnham) Jack Walsh.


However, a disappointing 77 on Thursday morning got worse on the par four fourth of Creavin's final round when he found a drain from his tee-off and double bogeyed to effectively put himself out of the running.


Headfort's Brian Dunne also started the day very much in contention just five shots behind Creavin, but 83 in the morning round couldn't be rescued by a superb 72 in the afternoon.


Creavin finished tied for seventh with the host club's Eoin Kelly just two shots back tied for 10th following a great last round of -2.


The title went to Wentworth's Eoin Leonard who finished on 287, five under par and one stroke ahead of Walsh, who turned for the last nine tied for the lead on -6 but went two over par for the back nine, and Galway's Ronan Mullarney.

PLACINGS
Leinster Boys Amateur Open Championship 2013 at Co. Meath Golf Club


287 E Leonard (Wentworth) 74 71 70 72
288 R Mullarney (Galway) 73 71 71 73, J Walsh (Castle) 72 71 73 72
289 J Whelan (Newlands) 71 74 69 75
290 R Lester (Hermitage) 71 74 74 71
293 L Grehan (Mullingar) 74 74 73 72, C Mills (Shandon Park) 74 70 73 76, D Creavin (Killeen Castle) 70 69 77 77
295 T Collins (Dun Laoghaire) 76 76 69 74, E Kelly (Co. Meath) 74 75 75 71, D Carey (Carton House) 70 79 73 73
296 G Ward (Kinsale) 76 75 72 73
298 S Greenberg (Tandragee) 71 77 78 72
299 D Flynn (Carton House) 79 73 75 72, C Kennedy (Forrest Little) 77 74 70 78, M MacGrath (Limerick) 76 74 70 79, P Kerr (Royal Portrush) 76 71 76 76, S Doyle (Athlone) 75 73 74 77, K Le Blanc (The Island) 74 74 72 79, B Dunne (Headfort) 74 70 83 72, J McDonnell (Forrest Little) 73 78 71 77
300 M McKinstry (Cairndhu) 79 73 75 73, R Dutton (Tandragee) 76 74 73 77, B Doran (Rathsallagh) 75 74 76 75, K McCarron (North West) 72 78 69 81, A Magee (Powerscourt) 72 76 75 77
301 R Murray (Castle) 77 72 76 76, A Mulholland (Castlerock) 76 75 77 73, J Dunne (Borris) 75 71 80 75, B Murray (Waterford Castle) 73 79 75 74, C Stone (Carton House) 72 74 76 79
302 D Byrne (Greystones) 76 74 74 78, R Williamson (Holywood) 75 77 75 75, A Doyle (Bray) 74 76 75 77
303 J Blake (Forrest Little) 73 74 78 78
304 J McVicker (Knock) 78 71 75 80, M Ryan (New Ross) 77 75 78 74, R Mohan (The Island) 75 76 75 78
305 G Leacy (Dungarvan) 76 75 75 79, S Irwin (Holywood) 75 73 78 79, K Eccles (Clandeboye) 73 76 78 78
307 B Quilligan (Hermitage) 79 73 77 78, C Flanagan (Tullamore) 74 78 76 79
309 C Twomey (Fermoy) 74 78 82 75
310 C Butler (Kinsale) 75 76 76 83
311 C Mooney (Black Bush) 76 76 81 78, C Rankin (Royal Portrush) 71 78 80 82
312 M Norton (Belvoir Park) 80 72 80 80
314 M O'Leary (Citywest Resort) 74 78 83 79

RTD M Howard (Fota Island) 75 77 89 RTD

WTD G O Mahony (Lee Valley) 77 72 84 WTD


Non Qualifiers
152 E Goggin (Mallow) 73 79
153 C Purcell (Portmarnock) 79 74, C Harte (Castle) 79 74, M Kane (Whitehead) 78 75, A Keenan (Dundalk) 78 75, P Brennan (Belvoir Park) 77 76, D Kelly (Hermitage) 77 76, E O'Hehir (Naas) 77 76, T Mulligan (Laytown & Bettystown) 76 77, N O'Connell (Waterford Castle) 75 78
154 S Rooney (Fortwilliam) 80 74, H Duggan (Kilkenny) 78 76, J Igoe (Roscommon) 77 77, M McPartlin (Carton House) 76 78, J Quinn (The Island) 76 78, N Foley (The Island) 75 79, R Brazill (Rathsallagh) 74 80
155 J Irwin (Holywood) 83 72, J Brown (The Heath) 82 73, C Boylan (Greystones) 79 76, J Corbett (Ballinasloe) 78 77, C Sutton (Malahide) 77 78
156 G Milne (Faithlegg) 77 79, C Smyth (Greenore) 76 80, M Culhane (Limerick) 76 80, S Walsh (Carton House) 75 81
157 A Clegg (Donaghadee) 79 78, E McGrane (Headfort) 78 79
158 D Morley (Oughterard) 84 74, C Dootson (Craddockstown) 81 77, E Kennedy (Woodbrook) 81 77, D Hogan (Navan) 80 78, R Steedman (Courtown) 79 79, A Conlon (Malahide) 79 79, T Joyce (Borris) 77 81, I Dunican (Athenry) 77 81, L O'Meara (Castle Barna) 77 81, M Cooke (Waterford) 75 83
159 J McCarthy (Stackstown) 85 74, L Olivon (FONTAINEBLEAU) 83 76, A McCormick (Scrabo) 83 76, K McCormack (Portarlington) 81 78, J Healy (Westport) 80 79, J Howard (Fota Island) 79 80, A D'Arcy (Ballinrobe) 78 81, M Boucher (Carton House) 78 81, C Keown (Greystones) 75 84, C Hendrick (Grange) 75 84, D O'Byrne (Greystones) 74 85
160 J Doherty (Ballina) 85 75, B Horgan (Dun Laoghaire) 82 78, M O'Connell (Cork) 81 79, C Byrne (Bray) 81 79, L Donnelly (Callan) 81 79, G Ryan (Stackstown) 80 80, M Rea (Donaghadee) 79 81, B Fitzpatrick (Castle) 79 81
161 R Nevin (Headfort) 83 78, P Smith (Malahide) 80 81, D Cafferty (Carton House) 79 82, J Knipe (Royal Portrush) 79 82, S Adamson (K Club) 78 83, I Agnew (Old Conna) 78 83
162 R Hynes (Howth) 86 76, R Browne (Castle) 79 83, P Tobin (Mahon) 78 84, N O'Connor (Killarney) 76 86
163 S O'Connor (Castlebar) 83 80, P Hayes (Lee Valley) 83 80, B Cassidy (Dromoland) 81 82, M Looby (Greystones) 81 82, A Fahy (Bray) 80 83, M Murray (Edmondstown) 80 83, K Coyle (Athlone) 76 87
164 S Boore (Lucan) 89 75, C Raymond (Newlands) 82 82, P Fox (Co. Meath) 82 82, M McKenna (Dun Laoghaire) 82 82, M Travers (Carton House) 81 83, P Clifford (Killarney) 76 88
165 D O Connor (Faithlegg) 84 81, C Gallagher (Navan) 83 82, R Corry (Clandeboye) 81 84, M Thallon (Bangor) 79 86
166 C Doyle (Naas) 86 80, S O'Regan (Edmondstown) 77 89
167 R McKeever (Castle) 79 88
169 O Malone (Ardee) 82 87
170 T Conway (West Waterford) 91 79, G Fitzmaurice (Balcarrick) 85 85, G Murray (Royal Tara) 83 87
171 S McParland (Greystones) 86 85, C Feeney (Co. Sligo) 84 87
172 C McGoldrick (Enniscrone) 82 90
173 M Bardaji (Vallromanes Golf Club) 90 83

WTD J Dempsey (Newbridge) 75 WTD, S Sweeney (Seapoint) 80 WTD, C Morgan (Dunmurry) 84 WTD.

 

FERGAL LYNCH