Gleeson edges out Grehan for Intervarsity title; Shannon Burke top woman
Alex Gleeson (Castle / UCD) winning the Irish Youths Open & Irish Colleges Invitational Championship earlier this year. .Picture by Pat Cashman
Alex Gleeson beat Stuart Grehan in a three-hole aggregate playoff to retain his Irish Intervarsity Championship at Rosslare.
One behind at the start of play, the UCD player closed with a level par 72 to Grehan’s 73 to tie on seven under par, four shots clear of Grehan’s Maynooth University team mate, Robin Dawson.
A par at the first extra hole put Gleeson in the driving seat and he held on for a slender victory, his fourth of the year.
Grehan had opened with a course record, nine under 63 at the Co Wexford links but the East of South of Ireland champion ran out of steam with a par of 73s.
In the women’s championship, Maynooth University’s Shannon Burke fired a final round, three under 70 to take the title by seven strokes from UCD’s Chloe Ryan (72) on level par with Gemma McCarthy (71) third on 12 over.
Intervarsity Championship, Rosslare (Par 72)
Women's Championship
219 Shannon Burke (MU) 71 78 70
226 Chloe Ryan (UCD) 76 78 72
231 Gemma McCarthy (MU) 75 85 71
234 Rachel Taylor (TCD) 75 81 78
244 Laura Doherty (TCD) 79 80 85, Molly Dowling (MU) 73 89 82
249 Meadhbh Doyle (MU) 76 90 83
251 Maeve Kelly (MU) 84 83 84
264 Ciara Magill (LIT) 84 87 93
DQ/WD Shannen Brown (MU) 73 DQ , Rachel Mc Donnell (UCD) 89 86 WD, Ruth Dillon (UCD) 85 92 WD, Caroline Hewitt (UCD) 94 93 WD
Men's Championship
209 Alex Gleeson (UCD) 67 70 72, Stuart Grehan (MU) 63 73 73 (Gleeson won by one stroke after three hole aggregate playoff)
213 Robin Dawson (MU) 67 76 70
215 John Hickey (CIT) 71 72 72
217 Jordan Hood (MU) 71 72 74
219 Kyle McCarron (MU) 71 75 73
220 Eugene Smith (MU) 69 77 74
221 Declan Reidy (IT Sligo) 73 75 73
223 Liam Grehan (MU) 71 77 75, Ronan Mullarney (MU) 70 78 75
224 Marc Nolan (IADT) 75 76 73, Ross Dutton (Ulster) 74 75 75, James Sugrue (MU) 70 79 75
225 Sean Flanagan (MU) 75 75 75, Jonathan Yates (UCD) 73 82 70
226 Alastair McQuillan (Ulster) 71 79 76
228 Daniel Holland (DIT) 71 82 75
229 Ross Steedman (MU) 81 77 71, Tristan Coakley (CIT) 75 80 74
231 Ben Murray (UCC) 78 74 79, Gareth Mann (UCD) 75 81 75, Cathal Nolan (NUIG) 70 78 83
232 Colm Hughes (NUIG) 74 81 77, Gary Ward (MU) 71 83 78, James Lindsay (Ulster) 69 88 75
234 Sean Walsh (MU) 75 82 77, Anton Brennan (NUIG) 74 84 76, Bill Murray (UCC) 74 79 81
235 Neil McKinstry (Ulster) 78 78 79
236 Henry Clark (Ulster) 74 80 82, Colin Woodroofe (MU) 73 82 81
237 Jack Walsh (MU) 73 82 82
238 Cian Feeney (MU) 80 82 76, Gavin Fitzmaurice (UCD) 77 82 79, David Brady (MU) 77 81 80, Eoin O'Brien (MU) 76 81 81, Timmy Broderick (UL) 75 79 84, Daniel O'Byrne (TCD) 74 84 80
239 Conor Ringland (TCD) 74 86 79
240 Stefan Greenberg (Ulster) 85 75 80, Ryan McCullough (Ulster) 83 75 82, Jack Mc Donnell (MU) 74 83 83
243 Ted Collins (UCD) 85 81 77
245 Glen Mowat (Ulster) 80 83 82
247 Conor Friel (NUIG) 76 90 81
248 Peter Fleming (NUIG) 80 80 88, Derek Power (WIT) 79 80 89, Conor Stone (MU) 78 86 84
251 Sean Burke (NUIG) 83 91 77, Conor McGlynn (UCD) 79 85 87
253 Andrew Magee (UCD) 83 87 83
258 Dylan Lambe (TCD) 77 90 91
NR/WD/DQ Graham O'Connor (CIT) 98 NR 91, Duane Topham (TCD) 86 86 NR, Edward Sheehan (UCD) 84 NR , Brian Dunne (DKIT) 85 NR , Ronan Molloy (DKIT) 86 NR , Aaron King (DKIT) 79 88 DQ, Jason O'Reilly (WIT) 88 84 DQ, Sam Devey (TCD) 87 87 DQ, Adam McSweeney (CIT) 75 84 WD, John McCarthy (UCD) 81 79 WD, Daniel O'Connor (MU) 80 83 WD, Paul Tobin (UCC) 78 87 WD, Darren O'Brien (UCC) 80 88 WD, Cathal Butler (MU) 73 WD , Craig Melvin (MU) 76 WD
175 David O'Sullivan (CIT) 81 9
