Evan Monaghan completed an impressive third within the Irish Beneath 16 Boys Order of Advantage following his one-shot win within the 2022 Connacht Beneath-16 Boys Open at Carrick-on-Shannon.
he Tullamore golfer opened with a sensational, four-under-par 66 to share the primary spherical lead with Roganstown’s Mark Cadden, who caddied for Hugh Foley in yesterday’s AIG Irish Beginner Shut remaining at Headfort.
Monaghan turned in
one below par earlier than
coming dwelling in three-under 31 because of an eagle three on the 14th and a birdie at
the sixteenth.
In spherical two, he made three birdies and 5 bogeys in a two-over 72 to win by a single stroke from Douglas’s Sean Reddy, who closed with a better of the week 65 on the Leitrim membership, and Royal Belfast’s Finlay Keen.
Ballykisteen’s Gordan Sillett completed in fourth on one-over par after constant rounds of 70 and 71 with Galway Bay’s Caelan Coleman, Greystones’ Dylan Holmes and Roganstown expertise Cadden finishing the highest 5 on two over par.
Enniscorthy’s Sean Cooper was eighth on 4 over after a 73, with Naas’s Calum Duane and Ardee’s Harley Phipps rounding out the highest 10 in a tie for ninth on 5 over.
Keen, who gained the Ulster Beneath 16s at Bangor and was second within the Irish Beneath 16s at Lucan, claimed the Beneath 16 Order of Advantage from Douglas’s Jack Murphy, the Leinster and Munster champion, who didn’t compete in Carrick-on-Shannon as he was competing within the Boys Beginner Championship.
