Cleary wins Munster Seniors after 7 hole playoff
Tom Cleary
Cork's Tom Cleary won the Munster Seniors Amateur Open after a thrilling seven-hole playoff at Thurles.
According to Niall O’Shea of Cork Golf News
Although he won the title in 2009, Cleary suffered a play-off defeat last year as Arthur Pierse won when the championship was held in Cleary’s home course of Cork GC.
At the end of the 36 holes, three golfers were tied on six-over par. Cleary was joined by Bandon’s Donie O’Donovan and Elm Park’s Brian Whitaker. Had a countback rule been in operation, O’Donovan would have lifted the trophy after shooting a level par 72.
The rules however called for a three hole play-off which still couldn’t settle the competition. It took a total of seven holes before Cleary broke free and captured the title.
Defending champion Pierse finished tied fourth, two shots off the leaders. Doneraile’s Michael Quirke was sixth, one further shot behind and Bandon’s John Carroll was tied for 11th place.
Munster Seniors Amateur Open Championship at Thurles Golf Club
13 & 14 May — Sponsored by Clarion Hotel Limerick
Results after round 2 — Round 1 CSS 75 Round 2 CSS 75
- WINNER Tom Cleary (Cork) 150
- RUNNER UP Donal O’Donovan (Bandon) 150
- THIRD Brian Whitaker (Elm Park) 150
- FOURTH John Mitchell (Tramore) 152
- FIFTH Arthur Pierse (Tipperary) 152
- SIXTH Michael Quirke (Doneraile) 153
- 1ST Nett A Patrick Johnson (Carrick-On-Suir) 139
- 2nd Nett A Michael D’arcy (Oughterard) 142
- 1st Nett B Mervyn Eager (Lucan) 143
- 2nd Nett B Jerry Gore (Oughterard) 148
- 1st Nett C John Cuffe (Monkstown) 148
- 2nd Nett C John Carroll (Bandon) 149
Munster Seniors Amateur Open C'ship
| Gross Leaderboard switch | R1 CSS 75 | R2 CSS 75 | Total | Par | ||
| 1st | Donal O' Donovan Bandon Golf Club (2) | 78 | 72 | 150 | +6 | |
| 1st | Tom Cleary Cork (1) | 75 | 75 | 150 | +6 | |
| 1st | Brian Whitaker Elm Park Golf Club (5) | 75 | 75 | 150 | +6 | |
| 4th | John Mitchell Tramore Golf Club (1) | 78 | 74 | 152 | +8 | |
| 4th | Arthur Pierse Tipperary (-1) | 75 | 77 | 152 | +8 | |
| 6th | Michael Quirke Doneraile Golf Club (1) | 76 | 77 | 153 | +9 | |
| 6th | Mervyn Eager Lucan (5) | 75 | 78 | 153 | +9 | |
| 8th | Billy Donlon Birr Golf Club (2) | 78 | 76 | 154 | +10 | |
| 8th | Ian Smyth Clandeboye (3) | 77 | 77 | 154 | +10 | |
| 8th | Michael Darcy Oughterard Golf Club (6) | 72 | 82 | 154 | +10 | |
| 11th | John Carroll Bandon Golf Club (3) | 79 | 76 | 155 | +11 | |
| 11th | Tom Tyrrell The Heath Golf Club (3) | 78 | 77 | 155 | +11 | |
| 11th | Patrick Johnson Carrick-on-Suir Golf Club (8) | 78 | 77 | 155 | +11 | |
| 14th | Ronnie Berry Rossmore Golf Club (1) | 78 | 78 | 156 | +12 | |
| 15th | Neville Steedman Courtown Golf Club (-1) | 78 | 79 | 157 | +13 | |
| 16th | Peter Cowley Cork (2) | 81 | 77 | 158 | +14 | |
| 16th | John Cuffe Monkstown Golf Club (5) | 80 | 78 | 158 | +14 | |
| 16th | Dermot Morris Limerick (2) | 79 | 79 | 158 | +14 | |
| 16th | Jan Gilbert Malone (5) | 79 | 79 | 158 | +14 | |
| 16th | Liam Troy Thurles (5) | 79 | 79 | 158 | +14 | |
| 16th | George Mellerick Fota Island Golf Club (2) | 79 | 79 | 158 | +14 | |
| 16th | Michael F Galvin Limerick (5) | 77 | 81 | 158 | +14 | |
| 16th | David Walpole Milltown Golf Club (3) | 76 | 82 | 158 | +14 | |
| 24th | Tony Hayes K Club (3) | 81 | 78 | 159 | +15 | |
| 24th | Adrian Wynne Strandhill Golf Club (0) | 80 | 79 | 159 | +15 | |
| 24th | Jack Dempsey Curragh Golf Club (4) | 79 | 80 | 159 | +15 | |
| 27th | Noel Paterson Milltown Golf Club (4) | 81 | 79 | 160 | +16 | |
| 27th | Francis Reynolds Tramore Golf Club (4) | 80 | 80 | 160 | +16 | |
| 29th | Brendan Mcdonnell K Club (5) | 85 | 76 | 161 | +17 | |
| 29th | Richard Mcdowell Royal Belfast Golf Club (1) | 84 | 77 | 161 | +17 | |
| 29th | Nigel Duke Killiney Golf Club (1) | 83 | 78 | 161 | +17 | |
| 29th | Paddy Donnachie Cobh (6) | 82 | 79 | 161 | +17 | |
| 29th | Declan Corcoran Thurles (2) | 81 | 80 | 161 | +17 | |
| 29th | Rory Timlin Galway (5) | 80 | 81 | 161 | +17 | |
| 29th | Michael Ahern Skerries Golf Club (2) | 79 | 82 | 161 | +17 | |
| 29th | Marcus Conroy Galway (6) | 78 | 83 | 161 | +17 | |
| 37th | Liam Mac Namara Rosslare Golf Club (3) | 82 | 80 | 162 | +18 | |
| 37th | Tom Saunders Ennis Golf Club (6) | 80 | 82 | 162 | +18 | |
| 37th | Greg Murphy K Club (6) | 80 | 82 | 162 | +18 | |
| 37th | Gerry Reeves Limerick (4) | 79 | 83 | 162 | +18 | |
| 37th | Paddy Harrington Muskerry Golf Club (4) | 76 | 86 | 162 | +18 | |
| 42nd | Brendan O Malley The Royal Dublin (3) | 83 | 80 | 163 | +19 | |
| 42nd | Gerard Maher Castletroy Golf Club (4) | 82 | 81 | 163 | +19 | |
| 42nd | Tony Goode Lucan (4) | 80 | 83 | 163 | +19 | |
| 45th | Pat Morrissey Balbriggan Golf Club (4) | 85 | 79 | 164 | +20 | |
| 45th | Neil Kilgallon European Golf Club (5) | 82 | 82 | 164 | +20 | |
| 45th | Jerry Gore Oughterard Golf Club (8) | 81 | 83 | 164 | +20 | |
| 48th | Noel Mannion Dun Laoghaire Golf Club (4) | 81 | 84 | 165 | +21 | |
| 48th | Kevin Sheehy Athlone Golf Club (3) | 81 | 84 | 165 | +21 | |
| 48th | John O'donoghue Tipperary (4) | 81 | 84 | 165 | +21 | |
| 48th | Liam Horgan The Heath Golf Club (5) | 80 | 85 | 165 | +21 | |
| 48th | John D Smyth Lahinch Golf Club (6) | 80 | 85 | 165 | +21 | |
| 53rd | Dave Roberts Rathcore (6) | 85 | 81 | 166 | +22 | |
| 54th | Martin Higgins Claremorris Golf Club (5) | 85 | 82 | 167 | +23 | |
| 54th | Alistair Campbell Massereene Golf Club (6) | 84 | 83 | 167 | +23 | |
| 54th | Matt Donohue Portumna Golf Club (6) | 84 | 83 | 167 | +23 | |
| 54th | Patrick J Murphy Cork (4) | 84 | 83 | 167 | +23 | |
| 58th | Des Egan Loughrea Golf Club (6) | 86 | 82 | 168 | +24 | |
| 58th | Gerard O'kennedy Athlone Golf Club (5) | 85 | 83 | 168 | +24 | |
| 58th | Michael Foley Faithlegg Golf Club (5) | 84 | 84 | 168 | +24 | |
| 58th | Gerry Phelan Macreddin (6) | 83 | 85 | 168 | +24 | |
| 62nd | Gerry O'keeffe Waterford (6) | 87 | 82 | 169 | +25 | |
| 62nd | David Sheedy Lahinch Golf Club (5) | 85 | 84 | 169 | +25 | |
| 62nd | John Rea Clandeboye Golf Club (5) | 83 | 86 | 169 | +25 | |
| 62nd | Joseph Dowey Lurgan Golf Club (5) | 83 | 86 | 169 | +25 | |
| 62nd | Richard Cotter Delgany Golf Club (7) | 79 | 90 | 169 | +25 | |
| 67th | Kieran O'mahony Galway (5) | 87 | 83 | 170 | +26 | |
| 67th | Rory Fitzgerald Tramore Golf Club (4) | 87 | 83 | 170 | +26 | |
| 67th | Frank Leonard Knightsbrook (5) | 86 | 84 | 170 | +26 | |
| 67th | Larry Hogan Mount Temple (7) | 82 | 88 | 170 | +26 | |
| 71st | John Mccann Co. Louth Golf Club (8) | 88 | 83 | 171 | +27 | |
| 71st | Keith Lapsley Dunfanaghy Golf Club (5) | 87 | 84 | 171 | +27 | |
| 71st | G. A. Finn Cork (6) | 84 | 87 | 171 | +27 | |
| 71st | John O'malley Rathdowney Golf Club (6) | 82 | 89 | 171 | +27 | |
| 71st | Sean F. Hosty Galway (6) | 82 | 89 | 171 | +27 | |
| 76th | Jack Maguire Co. Louth Golf Club (6) | 86 | 86 | 172 | +28 | |
| 76th | William J O Brien Ballykisteen Golf Club (6) | 82 | 90 | 172 | +28 | |
| 78th | David Coyle K Club (5) | 88 | 85 | 173 | +29 | |
| 78th | Paul Hautz Delgany Golf Club (6) | 87 | 86 | 173 | +29 | |
| 78th | Barry O'gorman Rossmore Golf Club (7) | 87 | 86 | 173 | +29 | |
| 78th | Pat Lynch Slade Valley Golf Club (7) | 87 | 86 | 173 | +29 | |
| 78th | Joe Keegan Courtown Golf Club (6) | 86 | 87 | 173 | +29 | |
| 83rd | Joe Crowley Athy Golf Club (8) | 87 | 87 | 174 | +30 | |
| 83rd | Paul Cooley Portstewart Golf Club (5) | 85 | 89 | 174 | +30 | |
| 83rd | Daniel J Tobin Waterford (9) | 84 | 90 | 174 | +30 | |
| 86th | Patrick Comerford Corrstown Golf Club (3) | 90 | 85 | 175 | +31 | |
| 86th | John Houlihan Dooks Golf Club (6) | 89 | 86 | 175 | +31 | |
| 86th | Sean Duffy Westmanstown Golf Club (6) | 88 | 87 | 175 | +31 | |
| 86th | Brian Mcclean The Royal Dublin (5) | 88 | 87 | 175 | +31 | |
| 86th | Mike Hennessy Lahinch Golf Club (5) | 86 | 89 | 175 | +31 | |
| 86th | Michael Lavelle Muskerry Golf Club (7) | 85 | 90 | 175 | +31 | |
| 92nd | Eugene Slater Dungarvan Golf Club (8) | 90 | 86 | 176 | +32 | |
| 93rd | Frank Cronin Muskerry Golf Club (7) | 91 | 88 | 179 | +35 | |
| 93rd | Tony Mcglynn Craddockstown Golf Club (9) | 88 | 91 | 179 | +35 | |
| 95th | Eamon Connolly Blainroe Golf Club (8) | 93 | 87 | 180 | +36 | |
| 96th | Tony Pryor Highwoods (Bexhill) Golf Club (10) | 94 | 87 | 181 | +37 | |
| 97th | Denis Creedon Lahinch Golf Club (8) | 90 | 92 | 182 | +38 | |
| 97th | John Madden Walmley (Wylde Green) Golf Club (7) | 90 | 92 | 182 | +38 | |
| 97th | Don Weekes Dunmurry (5) | 86 | 96 | 182 | +38 | |
| 100th | James Kelly Littlestone Golf Club (7) | 94 | 89 | 183 | +39 | |
| 101st | Vincent O'rourke Naas Golf Club (8) | 93 | 91 | 184 | +40 | |
| 102nd | Ronnie Millar Kirkistown Castle Golf Club (8) | 94 | 91 | 185 | +41 | |
| 102nd | Fergus Caine Co. Louth Golf Club (8) | 92 | 93 | 185 | +41 | |
| 102nd | Robert Ryland Birr Golf Club (6) | 91 | 94 | 185 | +41 | |
| 105th | Tony Lewis Mitchelstown Golf Club (6) | 96 | 92 | 188 | +44 | |
| 105th | Liam Wall Cahir Park Golf Club (8) | 93 | 95 | 188 | +44 | |
| 107th | Hugh Stephen Courtney South Africa (8) | 91 | 98 | 189 | +45 | |
| 108th | William Leggett Island (9) | 98 | 100 | 198 | +54 | |
| 109th | Terry Lilly Slade Valley Golf Club (6) | NR | 82 | |||
| 110th | Michael Kelly Dungarvan Golf Club (8) | NR | 90 | |||
| 111th | Kevin Knightly The Royal Dublin (7) | 84 | NR | |||
| 112th | Larry Cushen The Heath Golf Club (7) | NR | NR | |||
| 113th | Niall Finnegan Gort Golf Club (6) | 85 | 85 | +13 | ||
| 113th | Sean Coyne Killarney Golf Club (7) | 85 | 85 | +13 | ||
| 115th | Gordon Parkhill Larne (5) | 86 | 86 | +14 | ||
| 116th | Denis J Clifford Cork (6) | 89 | 89 | +17 | ||
| 117th | John Mcdonnell Castletroy Golf Club (9) | 90 | 90 | +18 | ||
| 118th | Seamus Daly Waterford (9) | 87 | DQ | |||
| 119th | Ivan Morris Limerick (5) | DQ | ||||
| 120th | Maurice Kelly Naas Golf Club (0) | WD | ||||
Brian Keogh