Purcell edges out Mehaffey and Walsh in €10,000 Shootout at The K Club
Conor Purcell, winner of the BMW Irish Golfer Shootout at The K Club. Picture by Pat Cashman
Portmarnock’s Conor Purcell fired a five-under-par 67 to capture the €2,500 top prize in the €10,000 Irish Golfer Shootout supported by BMW & Modest! Golf.
The former Walker Cup player won by one stroke from two of Ireland’s leading amateur stars — Arizona State University’s Olivia Mehaffey and Wake Forest’s Lauren Walsh, who posted four-under 68’s at the testing parkland track.
Staged to give touring professionals and leading amateurs some competitive golf as they return to the course following the COVID-19 lockdown, Irish internationals Tom McKibbin and Peter O’Keeffe shot two-under 70’s to tie for fourth with Donegal professional Brendan McCarroll.
Wake Forest and Kilkenny’s Mark Power shot 71 to tie for seventh with Dermot McElroy and Tim Rice as David Carey, Auburn University’s Julie McCarthy, Gary Hurley, John-Ross Galbraith, Richard Kilpatrick, Neil O Briain and Niall McGlynn shot level par 72’s.
Former Ryder Cup-winning skipper Paul McGinley, who will return to European Tour action at Celtic Manor next month, shot a 75 at the scene of his third Ryder Cup win in 2006.
Scoreboard (Par 72)
67 Conor Purcell
68 Lauren Walsh (A), Olivia Mehaffey (A) 68
70 Tom McKibbin (A), Brendan McCarroll, Peter Okeeffe (A)
71 Mark Power (A), Tim Rice, Dermot McElroy
72 David Carey, Julie McCarthy (A), Gary Hurley, John-Ross Galbraith, Richard Kilpatrick, Neil O Briain, Niall McGlynn
73 Simon Thornton, Damian Mooney, Max Kennedy (A), Leona Maguire, Stuart Grehan
74 Jonathan Yates, Michael McGeady, Donal Gleeson, Liam Grehan (A), Mark O’Mahony
75 Paul McGinley, Ronan Mullarney, Matthew McClean (A), Colm Moriarty, Keith Egan (A)
76 32 Aine Donegan (A), Colin Lyttle, Gary Madden
77 Eoin O Brien, Beth Coulter (A), Ruaidhri McGee, Enda Maguire, Alex Maguire (A)
78 Brian McCormack, Rowan Lester (A), Rhys Clarke, Shane Franklin, Charlie Williams, Andrew Owens, Cameron Raymond
79 Ciaran Lavery, Anna Dawson (A), Josh Adams, Anna Foster (A), Eric Byrne, Brendan Lawlor, John Hickey, Stephen Barry, Paul McBride
80 Richard Bridges, Brendan Walton, Caolan Rafferty (A), Michael Dallat, Conor O’Rourke, Eanna Griffin (A), John McQuaid
81 Colin Farr, Rachel Thompson (A), Daniel Beattie, Dylan Keating, Simon Bryan, Jack Howard, Killian McGinley (A)
82 Tiaan Rosslee
83 Ger Hall
84 Joel Funnell, Matthew McCarthy, Tiarnan McLarnon (A)
86 Andrew Peoples
87 Brian Sweeney
89 Mick O'Shea
NR Brian Sweeney, John Casey
9 holes: Philip McLaughlin 40; Gary Murphy 41; Conor Russell 44
