On the prime of the draw, Seapioint’s Dylan Keating turned the fourth main qualifier in a row to exit on day one, shedding one as much as Monkstown’s Sean Desmond, who went on to beat East Clare’s Eoin Magill.
Desmond now takes on 2019 winner and former Walker Cup star Caolan Rafferty, who got here again from three down with 5 to play to edge out Berehaven’s Joe O’Neill on the 18th.
The Dundalk man received the 14th, fifteenth and seventeenth to stage the match earlier than O’Neill hit his method too near the wall on the 18th and, unable to make a full backswing, conceded after twice failing to get on the inexperienced.
“It was only a tough spin in for Joe,” Rafferty stated after his closing birdie. “I simply saved hitting fairways and greens, and what occurred on 18, it is not good when one thing like that occurs to a pleasant man like Joe.”
The winner of the Desmond-Rafferty conflict will tackle Galgorm’s Jordan Hood, who beat the combative Douglas man Barry O’Connell one up, or the regular Athenry grinder David Kitt
West of Eire winner Holmes from Greystones seems like a severe problem for final 12 months’s main qualifier Ryan Griffin from Ballybofey and Stranorlar after he adopted his win over Egan with 5 birdies in a 6&5 victory over Hearns.
The winner of Holmes-Griffin conflict will face Connemara’s Luke O’Neill or Grange’s Jake Whelan.
O’Neill beat Royal Dublin’s Sean Downes with a birdie on the fifth additional gap, the Dell, in spherical one earlier than defeating Fionn Dobbin 5&3, whereas Whelan did not should go previous the sixteenth in beating Bunclody’s Jason Rackard and Mullingar’s Adam Smith.
Pierse Motor Group South of Eire Newbie Open Championship, Lahinch
LIVE SCORING
Spherical one – Friday, 25 July
Seán Desmond (Monkstown) bt Dylan Keating (Seapoint) 1 up;
Eoin Magill (East Clare) bt Benjamin Oberholzer (Clandeboye) 2/1;
Caolan Rafferty (Dundalk) bt Patrick Curran (Edmondstown) 5/4;
Joe O’Neill (Berehaven) bt Jamie Butler (Naas) 3/1;
Barry O’Connell (Douglas) bt Adam Buchanan (Royal Portrush) 1 up;
Jordan Hood (Galgorm Citadel) bt Conor Clarke (Balmoral) 2/1;
David Kitt (Athenry) bt Robert Abernethy (Dun Laoghaire) 5/3;
Charlie Cooley (Belvoir Park) bt David Reddan (Castleknock) 1 up;
Ryan Griffin (Ballybofey & Stranorlar) bt Ross Latimer (Knock) 3/2
Andrew McCormack (Castletroy) bt Eoin O’Carroll (St Annes) 6/5;
Dylan Holmes (Greystones) bt Keith Egan (Carton Home) 3/2;
Niall Hearns (Mountrath) bt Jake Foley (Elm Park) 2/1;
Luke O’Neill (Connemara) bt Sean Downes (Royal Dublin) twenty third;
Fionn Dobbin (Malone) bt Eoin Sullivan (Portmarnock) 3/2;
Jake Whelan (Grange) bt Jason Rackard (Bunclody) 3/2;
Adam Smith (Mullingar) bt David Lally (Blainroe) ) 5/4;
Joe Lyons (Galway) bt Conor Hickey (Dooks) 5/3;
Ben Cahill (Dundalk) bt Sean Barry (Fota Island) 1 up;
Stephen Loftus (Lahinch) bt James Maginn (Mourne) nineteenth;
Jonathan Keane (Lahinch) bt Gavin O’Neill (Malahide) 4/3;
Conor Stapleton (Westport) bt Tony Scroope (Nenagh) 3/2;
Graham Donohoe (Enniscorthy) bt Richard Sykes (Dun Laoghaire) 2 up;
Paul O’Hanlon (Carton Home) bt James Walsh (Douglas) 6/5;
Colm Campbell (Warrenpoint) bt Karl Bornemann (Douglas) 3/2;
Thomas Abom (Edmondstown) bt Mark Gazi (Tralee) twentieth;
Jamie Sutherland (Galgorm Citadel) bt Colin Woodroofe (Dun Laoghaire) 4/2;
Jordan Boles (Charleville) bt Darcy Hogg (Belvoir Park) 6/5;
David Howard (Fota Island) bt Ross McCormack (Palmerstown Home) 2/1;
Liam Abom (Edmondstown) bt Darren O’Sullivan (Tralee) 3/1;
Joshua Hill (Galgorm Citadel) bt TJ Ford (Co Sligo) twenty first;
Quentin Carew (Castleknock) bt Barry Howlin (The Heritage) nineteenth;
Mark Cadden (Roganstown) bt Pat Murray (Adare Manor) 1 up.
Second spherical
Desmond bt Magill 1 up;
Rafferty bt O’Neill 1 up;
Hood bt O’Connell 1 up;
Kitt bt Cooley 3/2;
Griffin bt McCormack 1 up;
Holmes bt Hearns 5/3;
O’Neill bt F Dobbin 5/3;
Whelan bt Smith 5/4;
Lyons bt Cahill 6/5;
Keane bt Loftus 3/2;
Stapleton bt Donohoe 1 up
O’Hanlon bt Campbell nineteenth;
T Abom bt Sutherland 2/1;
Howard bt Boles 6/5;
L Abom bt Hill 1 up;
Cadden bt Carew 2/1.
Saturday – Third spherical
8:00 Desmond v Rafferty;
8:12 Hood v Kitt;
8:24 Griffin v Holmes;
8:36 O’Neill v Whelan;
8:48 Lyons v Keane;
9:00 Stapleton v O’Hanlon;
9:12 T Abom v Howard;
9:24 L Abom v Cadden.
