Duke is king in Leinster
Nigel Duke,(Killiney Golf Club) winner of the Leinster Seniors Amateur Open Championship with Enniscorthy Golf club captain Tommy Cooper and Leinster Branch Chairman John Ferriter at Enniscorthy Golf Club. Picture: Ronan Lang
Killiney's Nigel Duke closed with a four over par 76 to win the Leinster Seniors Amateur Open Championship by a stroke from Lucan's Mervyn Eager at Enniscorthy Golf Club
Playing off one, Duke had four bogeys and 14 pars on his card to finish on five over 149 as Eager put him under pressure with a 74, the joint low round of the day.
Athlone's Kevin Sheehy added a 75 to his opening 76 to take third place on seven over par 151.
Leinster Seniors Amateur Open Championship, Enniscorthy Golf Club, Parr 72 SSS 73 CSS R1 74 CSS R2 74)
149 Nigel Duke (Killiney Golf Club) 73 76
150 Mervyn Eager (Lucan) 76 74
151 Kevin Sheehy (Athlone) 76 75
152 James Gilbert (Druid's Heath) 78 74, Alan Lilley (Ballyclare) 77 75
153 John Mitchell (Tramore) 78 75, John L Hughes (Woodbrook) 73 80
154 Mick Ahern (Skerries) 78 76, Paddy Lewis (Woodbrook) 78 76, Denis Deasy (Waterford) 78 76, Maurice Kelly (Naas) 76 78, Tony Hayes (Hermitage) 76 78
155 Neville Steedman (Balcarrick) 77 78
156 Ian Smyth (Clandeboye) 81 75, Hugh Smyth (Mourne) 80 76, Garth McGimpsey (Bangor Golf Club) 79 77, Hugh Donnelly (Lisheen Springs) 78 78
157 Dale Baker (Downpatrick Golf Club) 75 82
158 Barry O'Leary (Greystones) 75 83
159 Joseph Dowey (Lurgan Golf Club) 79 80, Michael Coote (Tralee Golf Club) 79 80, Liam MacNamara (Rosslare) 76 83
160 Brendan Thomas (Slieve Russell) 81 79, Bert Burke (Moate) 81 79, Billy Donlon (Birr) 80 80, Morgan Pierse (Grange) 80 80, Jimmy Mc Carthy (Nuremore Golf Club) 79 81
161 Gerard O'Sullivan (Tralee Golf Club) 84 77, Gerry Phelan (Macreddin) 81 80, Peter O'Hagan (Wicklow Golf Club) 81 80, Jack Dempsey (Curragh Golf Club) 79 82, Tom Tyrrell (The Heath Golf Club) 79 82
162 Liam Doran (Ardee) 84 78, John Cuffe (Monkstown Golf Club) 79 83
163 Justin Coughlin (Donegal Golf Club) 81 82
164 Jim Mackey (Enniscorthy) 82 82
165 Richard Brooker (Skerries) 82 83, Joe Delaney (Enniscorthy) 82 83
166 Nigel Woods (Bangor Golf Club) 85 81, Larry O'Connor (Stackstown) 84 82, Michael Coffey (Enniscorthy) 83 83, Mick Gaynor (Co. Meath Golf Club) 82 84, Seamus Ward (Laytown & Bettystown) 82 84, Jim McVeigh (Carlow Golf Club) 82 84, Michael Darcy (Oughterard Golf Club) 81 85, Oliver O'Sullivan (Laytown & Bettystown) 76 90
167 Alan Mullen (Laytown & Bettystown) 85 82, Patrick Mulford (Delgany) 82 85
168 Tim Griffin (Corballis Links) 85 83, Rory Timlin (Galway Golf Club) 84 84, Daniel Cash (Rosslare) 83 85, Jan Gilbert (Malone) 79 89
169 Peter Murphy (Carlow Golf Club) 86 83, Gerry O'Keeffe (Waterford) 86 83, John Noonan (Grange) 86 83, Patrick Higgins (Forrest Little.) 85 84, Tom Byrne (Greystones) 83 86, John Mullen (Co. Louth) 83 86
170 Des Egan (Loughrea) 86 84, Michael Foley (Faithlegg Golf Club) 85 85, Joe Crowley (Athy Golf Club) 84 86
171 Fergus Caine (Co. Louth) 88 83, Ray Collins (Malone) 81 90
172 Paul Cooley (Portstewart Golf Club) 88 84
173 Paddy Harrington (Muskerry Golf Club) 92 81, Donal Brazil (Mount Temple) 91 82, Noel Paterson (Milltown) 89 84, Eamon Connolly (Blainroe Golf Club) 87 86, John Bourke (Castle) 86 87, Patrick Comerford (Corrstown) 84 89
174 P.J. Phelan (Cahir Park Golf Club) 89 85, Pat Lynch (Slade Valley Golf Club) 86 88
175 Allan Clarke (Co. Louth) 88 87, Mark Windebank (Royal Portrush) 87 88
176 Liam Dunbar (Enniscorthy) 86 90
177 Noel McMahon (Kinsale) 90 87
178 Barry O Gorman (Rossmore Golf Club) 90 88, Tony McGlynn (Craddockstown) 85 93, Pat Walsh (Killiney Golf Club) 84 94
179 George Leech (Enniscorthy) 87 92
180 Tom Campion (Athlone) 91 89, Michael Behan (Black Bush) 89 91
184 D S Boyd (Royal Belfast Golf Club) 100 84, Tadg Mannion (Athlone) 91 93
185 Patrick O'Brien (Forrest Little) 92 93
Dave Roberts (Rathcore) 80 NR, John Houlihan (Dooks Golf Club) 82 NR, William Leggett (The Island) 91 NR, Arthur Bell (Greencastle Golf Club) NR 102, David Conway (Portmarnock) 81 WD, Jerry Gore (Oughterard Golf Club) 83 WD, Patrick Smyth (Killiney Golf Club) 84 WD, Michael O'Sullivan (Gowran Park) 88 WD, Barry Lavin (Carton House) 90 WD, James Kennedy (Balcarrick) 95 WD, George Mellerick (Fota Island) NR WD, Rory Fitzgerald (Tramore) NR WD
