Kanturk golfer Mairead Martin is trying to go back-to-back in Woodbrook this weekend as she challenges for the Flogas Irish Ladies’s Novice Open Championship.
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In the meantime, Martin started her season with a win at Woodbrook Scratch Cup in April and the Cork native is hoping that the “good vibes” proceed on the Bray parkland course on one of many largest weekends of the season.
“It’s been season to date. Had loads of alternatives to play aggressive golf and it’s ready me for the subsequent spherical of occasions that we’ve developing. Excited to get again to Woodbrook after successful the Scratch Cup there earlier this yr so wanting ahead to weekend,” mentioned Martin.
“It was my first time at Woodbrook so I’m simply wanting ahead to getting again taking part in the golf course. I’m positive it’s in quite a bit completely different situations than once we performed the Woodbrook Scratch Cup, it was in the midst of a storm so the wind was robust and it was simply out of the winter so will probably be good to play the golf course in summer season situations and see what we will do there.”
Reigning champion Lorna McClymont (Scotland) makes the quick hop throughout the Irish sea, trying to return dwelling with the title for the third time in a row however a bunch of main Irish contenders together with Beth Coulter (Kirkistown Citadel), Aine Donegan (Lahinch) and Anna Foster (Elm Park) are hoping to maintain the trophy on dwelling soil.
Martin will get her first spherical underway at 11.04am on Saturday morning alongside Marina Joyce-Moreno (Spain) and Hester Sicking (Netherlands) and can rely herself among the many essential challengers for the title, figuring out from expertise easy methods to plot her method across the course.
“You simply need to play actually sensible on the Par 4s a few of them may be fairly lengthy the place you simply need to be a bit extra strategic than the Par 5s. I’d think about they’re placing the tees a bit additional again however a number of the Par 5s you may actually assault and that’s the place you may rating,” mentioned Martin.
“There’s no level in getting too far forward of your self. There’s no level imagining your self with the trophy on the finish of the week you may’t predict that each one you are able to do is management what you might be on the market to do,” mentioned Martin.
“Hopefully that would be the final result on the finish, however you by no means know what can occur in golf.”
The Flogas Irish Ladies’s Novice Open Championship will get underway with Kate Dillon (Oughterard), Claudia Hofmeister (USA) and Maeve Cummins (Lurgan) the primary to tee off on at 8.30am.
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