Shane Kennedy is the speak of Black Bush Golf Membership after setting a blistering course file of 64, 9 underneath par.
The 22-year-old – pictured above with captains Colin Rogers and Edel McDermott – carded ten birdies, together with 4 off the spin from the fifteenth, to higher the earlier mark of 68, set by Alan Geraghty.
It earned him a spot within the membership file books and a lower in handicap from 0.8 to +1.6.
Kennedy, a closing yr pupil of Biology and Bodily Training at Dublin Metropolis College, was competing within the Girl Captain’s Prize to the lads. (on June 30).
‘I didn’t take into consideration the file till I used to be coming down the final,’ mentioned Kennedy, a Dunshaughlin native who has been a member since he was 10 years previous.
Kennedy’s size off the tee noticed him undergo the again of the 562-yard ninth in two whereas he wanted a drive and a niche wedge to achieve the par 5 18th.
After handing over 32, 4 underneath par, Kennedy bagged six birdies on the again 9 the place he additionally ran up his lone bogey on the brief eleventh. ‘I type of shanked off the tee,’ he mentioned.
The seventeenth is one among function holes on the County Meath venue, able to wrecking many a card, however Kennedy tamed it with a five-iron and hole wedge.
“I used to be swinging it nicely off the tee and left myself with a number of easy up and downs,” he mentioned modestly.
