Mark Byrne’s Pierce Purcell team took on Delgany this afternoon and it turned into the clichéd game of two halves…
With two matches away and three at home our first home pairing of Rob Tierney & Stefan Florin got off to a flier 3 up after 3 and kept their feet on the gas to win 6&5. Our second home pair of Martin Commons & Conor Whelan came up against a very strong Delgany pair and lost by a similar margin on the 13th. Meanwhile up in Delgany, Alan Byrne & Gerry Browner played steady golf to win 6&4, while the unfortunate pairing of Denis Duff & John Comer came up against a Delgany pairing who both played the games of their lives to run out comfortable winners.
So two big wins for each side and honors even…
Our last pair at home, Stephen O’Brien & Eoin Mullen didn’t have the best of starts losing the 1st, 2nd and 3rd. As the saying goes, the best place to be 3 down is after 3 and they fought back to bring it to 1 down through 6 and got it to 2 up after 11. At this stage it was clear that this was going to be the deciding match and Delgany played good golf to bring the match to all square after 16. The 17th was halved in fives so it was, as is so often the case, off to the 18th tee to decide the tie winners.
Both tee shots on the 18th found trouble, Greystones on the left and Delgany on the right but Stephen played the better lay up and Delgany played their third shot into the green first. They found the bunker to the left of the green and Rob played a nice chip to the left edge. A decent bunker shot just caught the downslope past the pin and ran to the bottom of the green. Still Delgany to play first. A fantastic putt from the bottom tier to the flag on the top tier left them 3 feet for a six. Stephen rolled his putt to 18″ and when Delgany missed theirs it was handshakes all round.
Another great win. Congratulations to all involved.
Next up will be the Under 15s who play Blainroe on Tuesday.
