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The parent committee of the golf club has agreed to cease our current club lotto and to move to a new 50/50 draw. A dedicated 50/50 committee has been established to set this up and to oversee the same. This will be an exciting opportunity to significantly increase the prize money to the winners and eliminate the club costs paid to our current lotto third-party providers. The key principles of the draw are as follows. Each draw will take place fortnightly. Ideally, people would pay fortnightly through a bank standing order. However, there will also be envelopes in certain locations for one-off entries. A minimum entry of €5.00 per person each fortnight. However, there is no limit on the number of entries that you may wish to make for each draw. We encourage all members to sign up for the new 50/50 draw. The more that is in…the more you can win! It is intended that the first 50/50 draw will take place on Friday, 10th May. Those set up at that stage by standing order will enter the first draw automatically. You can, of course, join at any stage after that, but we would encourage you to get in from the start. To sign up by standing order, of €5.00 per fortnight, the following are the Golf Club bank details; Account Name: Carrick on Shannon Golf Club. IBAN: IE81 AIBK 9370 6104 0346 24 BIC: AIBKIE2D So please sign up and ask a family member or a friend. And remember, “It could be you”!

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This Bank Holiday Weekend From Friday 3rd May to Monday 6th of May the club will host the Damian Murphy Memorial Cup open to both Ladies and Gents 18 hole open Stableford competition.Please support this competition.

Club Lotto no Jackpot winner this week the £30 euro weekly winner was Fiachra Neary.

As you will be aware, the Club Classic is a really important event in our golfing season. It is an important fundraiser to help maintain and invest in our club. It is also a great time to showcase our club to non-members. We would like to ask you all, well in advance, to make every effort to invite friends and/or family to come along and play and for each member to ensure to play and enter a team. We will keep you updated over the next while; we can make this a really successful weekend for the members and for the club.

The Presentation of prizes took place in Flynn’s Bar last Thursday Night. Congrats to all the winners. Also big thank you again to Shane Fitzpatrick for the very generous sponsorship. Pictured are all the winners and club officials with Shane Fitzpatrick at Flynn’s Bar. [image: image.png]

A very successful outing took place to Castle Dargan on Monday the 22nd April. It was a Texas Scramble Stableford competition. Six teams of four players took part. It was an extremely close competition with only a two point difference between the highest and lowest scoring team. The overall winning team members were: Leo Mulvey; Leo Kavanagh; Dermot McNamara and Francie Foley with a score of 45 points. In second place also with 45 points was Pat Gannon; Kevin O’Rourke; Joe Keville and Dermot Monaghan. Third place was won by Tommy Mulvey; Chris Lowe; Damien Duignan and Seamus Sheeran with 44 points. The overall winner last Thursday was Leo Mulvey with a score of 39 points. Category one winner was Gerry Emmett with a score of 35 points. Category two was won by Charlie Farrell with 36 points and Category three was won by Gerard Fitzgerald with 31 points. The front nine was won by Michael Comerton with 18 points and the back nine was won by Robbie Donaldson with 18 points, golf as usual next Thursday.

This year at Carrick on Shannon Golf Club we saw the inaugural hosting of the OBN Open Series. Sponsored by OBN Financial Services. (Paul O’Brien) We are elevating 5 independent weekly competitions as qualifying events for The OBN Grand Final on Saturday the 7th of September. We are also making all 5 Open competitions for non-Carrick on Shannon golf club Members. Entry fee: Member €10, Non-Member: €35 (per competition) The 5 events are: The Curamach Strings Comp 18th-19th of May The Neary Accountant’s Comp 25th-26th of May The Kieran Pharmacy Comp: 15th-16th of June The Di Vino Restaurant Comp: 6th – 7th of July Cryan’s Hotel Comp: 24th-25th of August Points will be allocated from each of the above competitions as follows: 1st position: 25 points. 2nd position: 20 points. 3rd position: 18 Points 4th position: 17 Points 5th Position: 16 Points 6th to 10th position: 15 Points 11th to 20th position: 10 Points 21st to 30th position: 5 Points The top 40 players across the 5 competitions will qualify for the OBN Grand Final on the 7th of September 2024. Grand Final qualifiers must have played in a minimum of 3 of the above 5 competitions. *(*Non-Carrick on Shannon golf club members need only have played in 2 but needs the same points to qualify) The OBN Grand Final (Stableford Competition, White Markers) with ranking based on the position players qualified in as follows. Qualifiers 1 to 5 will start with +3 stableford points. Qualifiers 6 to 10 will start with +2 stableford points Qualifiers 11 to 25 will start with +1 stableford points Qualifiers 26 to 40 will start with 0 stableford points. Prizes and further information to follow. [image: image.png]

Club Lotto Congrats to Helen O’Malley who was the lucky winner of this week’s lotto worth £375euro.