Maynooth College’s Simon Walker capped off a implausible three days in Bundoran to assert the Males’s Irish Intervarsity Championship with a dominant closing spherical show on the Donegal hyperlinks.
Defending girls’s champion, Emma Fleming retained her crown because the UCD pupil carded rounds of 72, 77 and 71 to complete tied for seventeenth on ten over.
Walker teed up in blustery circumstances on Friday morning holding a two-shot lead over fellow Maynooth college students Thomas Abom and Aodhagan Brady and the Roscommon golfer confirmed no indicators of letting that benefit slip when taking simply 32 pictures in a three-under entrance 9.
After a bogey on the tenth, Walker shortly steadied himself and following his fifth birdie of the day on the par-three thirteenth, he held a commanding six-shot lead over nearest rival Brady.
With one hand on the trophy, Walker continued his glorious play making one more birdie on the seventeenth to assist him on his technique to a closing spherical of three-under 67 and a formidable five-shot victory on 10-under-par.
“I had no actual expectations coming in right here this week, however recreation is sort of trending properly and simply appeared to click on,” he stated.
“Respectable spherical the primary day after which all got here collectively on the again 9 yesterday which put me right into a place coming into at the moment after which the putter obtained scorching at first of at the moment and sort of took off from there then.
“I haven’t had the very best of seasons this 12 months, so it’s good to complete off properly. It has been a terrific week.”
There can be double delight too for Walker and Maynooth College because the workforce championship would return to the Kildare school as soon as once more with the trio of James Walsh, Liam Abom and the 2024 males’s champion combining for an eight-under whole.
A countback noticed them end forward of colleagues Brady, Jordan Boles and Thomas Abom, giving ‘Maynooth 2’ the bragging rights this 12 months.
“We’ve a terrific squad this 12 months, so it’s been good to get one up on a couple of of the lads again in Maynooth,” stated Walker.
“I almost threw it away on the final with a 3 putt however there was a very good little bit of slagging happening again in the home between Maynooth 1 and Maynooth 2 so it’s a couple of bragging rights now that we’ve got earned.”
View the ultimate scores right here.
