The OBN Series 2025 at Carrick on Shannon Golf Club. The second running of the “OBN Series” Sponsored by OBN Financial takes place this year 2025. We are making a number of changes from the lessons we learned last year. We have increased the qualifying competitions by one to 6 competitions.All 6 competitions are open to non-Carrick on Shannon golf club Members. Entry fee: Member €10, Non-Member: €35 (per competition) The 6 events are: The Curamach Strings Comp (2-Man Comp) 28th-29th of June Taylor Cleaning Comp (New Sponsor) 12th-13th of July Prime Signs Comp (New Sponsor) 26th/27 July Arigna Fuels Comp 09th/10th August The Neary Accountant’s Comp 16th-17th of August The Tipsy Tailor Comp (New Sponsor) 06th – 07th of Sept OBN Series Grand Final 20th of September.The format of the competitions are also changing, each week will have a different format (2-man event, stableford, stroke & V-par etc.) The system of awarding points each week has changed 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 Gross score winner: 5 Bonus Points. Visitor playing in comp: 5 Bonus Points We are awarding 5 bonus points to any Carrick on Shannon golf club member who gets a visitor to play in the qualifiers. These bonus points are capped at 30 points (6 visitors). The member must report the associated visitor before they play to be awarded the points. Member do not need to play with their visitors and the visitors can be all the one day or spread out across the qualifiers. The top 42 players across the 6 competitions will qualify for the OBN Grand Final on the 13th of September 2025. Grand Final qualifiers must have played in a minimum of 3 of the above 6 competitions. (Non-Carrick on Shannon golf club members need only have played in 2 but need the same points to qualify) Friday evening the 19th of September will see the very popular “Player Auction”. This will be live both on WhatsApp and in person in the Tipsy Tailor Bar Carrick on Shannon. The OBN Series Grand Final (Stableford Competition, White Markers, Shotgun Start, 3 ball groupings) with ranking based on the position players qualified in as follows.Top Qualifier will start with +5 Stableford points. Qualifiers 2 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. We hope you all can see from the changes that we are putting a larger emphasis on getting guests/visitors to play in the series. The first qualifier (The Curamach Strings Comp) is going to be a unique 2-man competition (more details to follow) so get your little black book out guys and get your partner lined up. It’s a fantastic opportunity to invite a guest to play and bag you first bonus points.

Our Fred Perry team were playing against Ballinamore last Wednesday evening in the first round. Congrats to Ballinamore on their win on the day. We wish them the best of luck in the next round. The team were as follows Team Captain Chris Lowe. Away Gordon Kavanagh and Albert Hogg. Tommie Mulvey and Michael Keville. Home Alan Ffrench and Paul Reid. Pedar Griffin and John Kelly. The club would like to thank the captain and team for their effort.

Our club Captains Francis and Hugh have appointed the following captains for the year ahead. The club would also like to thank John Coffey for all his work with all the captains. Junior Cup Capt. Dylan Beirne. Senior Cup and Barton Shield John Coffey. Jimmy Bruen Fiachra Neary. Pierce Purcell T.B.C. Mixed Team Monica Shannon and Thomas Taylor. Cecil Ewing Albert Hogg. Connacht Shield. Pat King. Jack O’Sullivan Liam Bruen. Fred Perry Chris Lowe.

The Following are the results of Wk 20 Thursday 15th of May. Congrats to the overall winner Jimmy Deane with an excellent score of 43pts. Cat 1 winner Tommie Kenoy 39pts. Cat 2 winner Robbie Donaldson 38pts. Cat 3 winner Charlie Farrell 38pts. F9 winner Leo Kavanagh 21pts. B9 Gerry Fitzgerald 20pts.

The club would like to thank the cottage for their very generous sponsorship of the gents 18 hole stableford competition. The results are as follows. 1st Ivan Keaney 43pts (B9) 2nd Paul Kelleher 43pts. Gross Aaron Gibney 36pts. 3rd Hugh Bracken 39pts.

This year’s classic is over the June Bank holiday weekend from Friday 30th of May to Monday June 02. 4 Person Team Event Fantastic Prize Pot. Thanks again to the Landmark Hotel our Main sponsor.

The Club members are very thankful to the Management and staff from Archway Products Jamestown who repaired the driveway to the Club House recently an excellent and a very professional Job.