Irish Intervarsity: Rafferty and Burke hit the front at Enniscrone
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Maynooth's Caolan Rafferty and Ulster's Shannon Burke lead the way heading into their final rounds in the Irish Intervarsity Championship at Enniscrone.
Dundalk native Rafferty, a current international, made five birdies in a sensational four-under 69 — the best round of the week so far by two strokes — to lead the men's event by a shot on one-over-par 147 from his ever-improving Maynooth teammate Eugene Smith, who posted a fine 71.
Overnight leader Ronan Mullarney, who was officially called up to the Irish Senior panel on Thursday, added a two-over 75 to his opening 74 to lurk just two strokes behind on three-over.
Defending champion John Hickey (74) from Cork IT is still in with a chance as he is just four shots off the lead in a share of fourth with classman Gary Ward (76), the consistent Anthony McDaid (76) from Dublin Business School and UCD's Ben Murray (76) on five-over.
In the women's championship, Burke shot a magnificent, three-under 70 to lead by two strokes from Maynooth's Mary Doyle on four-over 150.
Two-over after bogeys at the first and fifth, she played the last 12 holes superbly, she made five birdies in ten holes from the eighth, including a hattrick of twos at the eighth, 11th and 17th.
Doyle had an eagle two at the 10th in a one-over 74 to sit alone in second with fellow Maynooth player Molly Dowling a shot further back on seven-over after a 75.
The cut for the top 30 and ties in the men's event fell at 16-over 162 with the top seven in the women's event progressing on 15-over 161.
Irish Intervarsity Championship, Enniscrone Golf Club
Men's Championship (Par 73)
147 C Rafferty (Maynooth University) 78 69
148 E Smith (Maynooth University) 77 71
149 R Mullarney (Maynooth University) 74 75
151 J Hickey (Cork It) 77 74, G Ward (Cork IT) 75 76, A McDaid (Dublin Business School) 75 76, B Murray (University College Cork) 75 76
153 R O'Doherty (NUI Galway) 79 74, C Butler (Maynooth University) 75 78
154 Knipe (Ulster University) 78 76, J McVicker, James (Ulster University) 76 78
155 M Healy (University College Cork) 80 75, M J Kennelly (NUI Galway) 78 77
156 J McCarthy (University College Dublin) 84 72, H Gillivan (Maynooth University) 83 73
157 Ford, T J (Maynooth University) 82 75, M Burke (NUI Galway) 76 81
158 A Ryan (Maynooth University) 79 79, D Brady (Maynooth University) 79 79, C Roche (Cork IT) 79 79, J Hood (Maynooth University) 78 80, J Hayden (University College Dublin) 78 80
159 R Steedman (Maynooth University) 81 78, C Hughes (NUI Galway) 79 80
161 R Browne (University College Dublin) 86 75, G Fitzmaurice (University College Dublin) 77 84
162 B Doggett (Dundalk It 83 79, J Lawlor (Maynooth University) 82 80, D Diaz (Ulster University) 79 83, C Nolan (NUI Galway) 78 84
Missed Cut
163 R Dutton (Ulster University) 87 76, C McGoldrick (Dublin City University) 84 79, S Desmond (University College Cork) 83 80, P O'Beirn (UIi Galway) 78 85, A Fahy (Maynooth University) 77 86
164 J Quinn (The Island) 87 77, J McDonnell (Maynooth University) 84 80, J Rafferty (Maynooth University) 80 84
165 C Woodroofe (Maynooth University) 77 88
166 C Friel (NUI Galway) 85 81, A Comerford (NUI Galway) 84 82, C Ryan (Maynooth University) 83 83
167 M O'Farrell (NUI Galway) 86 81, E Griffin (Maynooth University) 82 85
168 T Coakley (Cork It) 91 77, C McCormack (Trinity College Dublin) 88 80, C Byrne (University College Dublin) 83 85
170 R Dineen (Cork IT) 87 83, L Flynn (Trinity College Dublin) 83 87
171 C Hastings (Galway-Mayo IT) 84 87
172 J Doherty (Dublin City University) 86 86
173 C Feeney (Maynooth University) 97 76
175 K Power (University College Dublin) 92 83, E O'Brien (Maynooth University) 88 87
176 E Haran (Trinity College Dublin) 93 83
178 D Mealia (Maynooth University) 89 89
180 D Hourihan (University College Cork) 93 87
181 D Devlin (Cork IT) 93 88
182 C O'Carroll (Cork It) 89 93
189 G Carr (Maynooth University) 95 94
WD L Grehan (Maynooth University)
NR N McKinstry (Ulster University), R Dunne (Maynooth University), T O'Reilly (Dundalk IT), S Greenberg (Ulster University), M Shiel (NUI Galway) 90 90, D Kelly (Maynooth University), L Power (Maynooth University), C Mc Donald (Ulster University)
RTD A McQuillan (Ulster University), A McSweeney (Cork It) 80 80
Women’s Championship (Par 73)
150 S Burke (Ulster University) 80 70
152 Mary Doyle (Maynooth University) 78 74
153 M Dowling (Maynooth University) 78 75
155 E Metcalfe (Maynooth University) 78 77, C Jones (It Tralee) 77 78
157 C Casey (Maynooth University) 79 78
161 Meadhbh Doyle (Maynooth University) 77 84
Missed Cut
162 J Allen (Ulster University) 85 77
164 N Ward (Ulster University) 85 79
166 C Walsh (Maynooth University) 90 76
167 A Ni Thuama (University College Cork) 86 81
174 S Lambe (Maynooth University) 90 84
178 K Bromley (Ulster University) 88 90
RTD R McDonnell (University College Dublin) 86 86
Friday 20 October - Round 3 Tee Times (* indicates 6th tee start)
- 08:20 *B O'Connell (Bandon), *L Cummins (Cork IT), M Burke (NUI Galway), TJ Ford (Maynooth University), H Gillivan (Maynooth University)
- 08:30 *D Herlihy (Cork IT), *J Leacy (University College Cork), *C Nolan (NUI Galway), J McCarthy (University College Dublin), MJ Kennelly (NUI Galway)
- M Healy (University College Cork)
- 08:40 *D Diaz (Ulster University), *J Lawlor (Maynooth University), *B Doggett (Dundalk IT), J McVicker (Ulster University), J Knipe (Ulster University), C Butler (Maynooth University)
- 08:50 *G Fitzmaurice (University College Dublin), *R Browne (University College Dublin), *C Hughes (NUI Galway), R O'Doherty (NUI Galway), B Murray (University College Cork), Meadhbh Doyle (Maynooth University)
- 09:00 *R Steedman (Maynooth University), *J Hayden (University College Dublin), *J Hood (Maynooth University), C Casey (Maynooth University), A McDaid (Dublin Business School), C Jones (IT Tralee)
- 09:10 *C Roche (Cork IT), *D Brady (Maynooth University), *A Ryan (Maynooth University), G Ward (Cork IT), E Metcalfe (Maynooth University), J Hickey (Cork IT)
- 09:20 M Dowling (Maynooth University), Mary Doyle (Maynooth University), S Burke (Ulster University)
- 09:30 R Mullarney (Maynooth University), E Smith (Maynooth University), C Rafferty (Maynooth University).
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