Odhran McGettigan and former British Amateur champion Brian McElhinney won the nett and gross prizes when the North Western Alliance competition resumed after its winter break at Portsalon.

The prestigious St. Patricks Plate — postponed from 28th November — took place on the Sandy Hills course in Rosapenna at the weekend with the continuing work on making that links even better necessitating in the competition being reduced to 16 holes.

The North West Golf Club, situated at Lisfannon, was shorn of its usual defence of wind and the facile nature of any links course devoid of wind was reflected in the scoring by North Western Alliance members on Saturday.

Newtownstewart's Eugene Corry won the prestigious St Patrick's Links Plate on the Old Tom Morris Links at Rosapenna on Saturday, bringing down the curtain on 2014 for the Northwestern Golfing Alliance.

Colm Moriarty (Glasson Hotel & CC) made the most of excellent scoring conditions to grab the first round lead at the Shell Pro-Am at Carne Golf Links

Augusta National is so alien to Irish golfing sensibilities (if you ignore the links-like contours) that just about the only thing we can relate to is the colour of the jacket given to the winner of the Masters Tournament every year.

Stewart McGinlay won captain Michael McGeady's prize in the final North Western Golfing Alliance outing of the season at North West Golf Club.

Irish PGA champion Michael McGeady fired a fabulous eight under par 60 to win the gross in the North Western Golfing Alliance outing at Dunfanaghy on Saturday.