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.

Ciaran O’Neil and Mick McGeady won the top prizes in the first North Western Golfing Alliance outing of the season at Letterkenny Golf Club.

Irish Close champion John-Ross Galbraith added a level par 69 to his opening 68 to take a two-stroke lead into the last two rounds of the Ulster Youths Amateur Open at Balmoral.