Wind and rain made the hillside Cairndhu coarse even more challenging for yesterday’s second and final round of the €15,000 annual PGA Pro-am tournament, at the Ballygally club on the Antrim coastline. However, overnight leader Damian Mooney clung on to top the leaderboard for the second day running.
A two-over-par 72 was good enough to collect the winner’s cheque when added to his opening three-under-67. Mooney finished a shot clear of Wayne O’Callaghan and Brendan McGovern, who bettered his opening 71 by two shots.
Mooney’s birdie threes at the first, fourth and ninth holes were wiped out by a hat-trick of bogey fives at five, seven and eight to leave the winner out in regulation 34.
Back-to-back bogeys at the short 11th and par four 12th holes plus seven pars on the back nine gave the Ballyliffin attaché top spot.
Corkonion O’Callaghan will rue a double-bogey six at the 10th hole as he offset birdie threes at three and 17 with bogeys at 14 and 15 while, in his 69,
McGovern made birdie threes at 10 and 18 with the only blot on his neat card being bogey five at eight.
On top of his fourth place personal finish, Cian McNamara, who had the best score of the day (68), added to his bank balance by leading home the winning team.
He and his trio of amateurs posted a second round 96 points for a winning total of 188, to breeze past overnight leader Jimmy Bolger and his team.