Morrow cruises to six-shot Leinster Seniors win
Adrian Morrow (Portmarnock) with the 2017 Leinster Seniors Amateur Open Championship trophy after his victory at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club (27/06/2017). Picture by Pat Cashman
Portmarnock's Adrian Morrow came from two shots behind overnight leader Frank Flynn to win the Leinster Seniors Amateur Championship by an impressive six strokes at Dun Laoghaire.
Champion in 2009 and last year's European Seniors champion, sweet-swinging Morrow closed with a best-of-the-day 74 to win with ease on three-over par.
Naas' Maurice Kelly was second on a countback from Oughterard's Richard Joyce while Mourne's Hugh Smyth won the Veteran's Category by one shot from Birr's Billy Donlon.
Leinster Seniors Amateur Open, Dun Laoghaire GC (Par 72)
SSS: 74. Round 1 CSS: 75 Round 2 CSS: 77
147 A Morrow (Portmarnock) 73 74
153 M Kelly (Naas) 79 74; R Joyce (Oughterard) 74 79
154 F Flynn (Laytown & Bettystown) 71 83
155 G McGimpsey (Royal Portrush) 81 74; T Tyrrell (The Heath) 77 78; T Lennon (Carlow) 76 79
156 L Halpin (Westport) 79 77; B Whitaker (Elm Park) 77 79
157 J McVeigh (Carlow) 76 81; J Crean (Kinsale) 76 81
158 A Brannock (Newlands) 81 77; J Mitchell (Tramore) 80 78; P Rogers (Dundalk) 78 80; J Hughes (Woodbrook) 77 81; J Gilbert (Malone) 76 82
159 D Wilson (Royal Co. Down) 81 78; N Steedman (European) 80 79; E Heywood (City of Derry) 76 83
160 H Smyth (Mourne) 78 82; M Quirke (Doneraile) 77 83; A Egan (Royal Curragh) 77 83; T Cleary (Cork) 77 83; D O'Donovan (Bandon) 76 84
161 B Donlon (Birr) 83 78; P Early (The Royal Dublin) 80 81; R McCartney (Royal Portrush) 77 84
162 D Brabazon (Balbriggan) 82 80; M Ahern (Skerries) 81 81; R Smyth (Laytown & Bettystown) 80 82; I Smyth (Clandeboye) 77 85
163 N Woods (Bangor) 85 78
164 G Mellerick (Fota island) 85 79; N Kilgallon (European) 82 82; P Lewis (Woodbrook) 80 84; N Mannion (Dun Laoghaire) 78 86; M Rourke (Ardglass) 78 86
165 P Brennan (Palmerstown Stud) 85 80; K Sheehy (Athlone) 82 83; P Murphy (Carlow) 81 84; B Burke (Moate) 81 84
166 D Weekes (Malone) 82 84; D Walpole (Milltown) 78 88
167 T Byrne (Greystones) 88 79; D Roberts (Rathcore) 85 82; A Smith (Blainroe) 84 83; C Sothern (Woodbrook) 78 89
168 T Byrne (Dun Laoghaire) 86 82; L MacNamara (Rosslare) 86 82; M Kirby (Grange) 84 84; E Murphy (Royal Curragh) 83 85; M D'arcy (Oughterard) 80 88
169 T Ryan (Malahide) 82 87
170 G O'Kennedy (Athlone) 84 86
171 K Lapsley (Dunfanaghy) 87 84; M Eager (Lucan) 85 86; R Timlin (Galway) 83 88; J Gore (Oughterard) 83 88; S Bell (Gracehill) 80 91 172 J Crowley (Athy) 84 88; P O'Hagan (Wicklow) 83 89; D Coyle (K Club) 81 91
173 G Phelan (Woodenbridge) 87 86; P Hautz (Delgany) 86 87
174 P Morgan (Co. Sligo) 90 84; D Timbs (Strandhill) 89 85; M Higgins (Claremorris) 88 86; J Whelan (Canada) 88 86
176 M Gaynor (Co. Meath) 90 86; C Muldowney (Grange) 88 88; J Crowley (The Island) 86 90; L Adams (The Heath) 86 90; H MacKeown (Portmarnock) 85 91
177 P McCormack (Dun Laoghaire) 92 85; P Cooley (Portstewart) 87 90
178 J Dowey (Lurgan) 87 91
180 T Griffin (Corballis Links) 91 89; R Cotter (Delgany) 89 91; E Connolly (Blainroe) 87 93
182 D Lindsay (Strandhill) 93 89
183 P O'Flanagan (Woodbrook) 87 96
189 T McGlynn (Craddockstown) 95 94
190 F McGowan (Athlone) 97 93; A Clarke (Co. Louth) 96 94
194 J Collins (Bearna) 93 101
196 P O'Brien (Forrest Little) 95 101
NR J Noonan (Grange); E Bourke (Castle); A Bell (Greencastle); P Higgins (Forrest Little); K Knightly (The Royal Dublin); P O'Grady (The Royal Dublin); B O'Leary (Greystones); M Coote (Tralee); N Duke (Killiney); V Smyth (Co. Louth);
RTD B O'Malley (The Royal Dublin); P Smyth (Killiney); S Ward (Layton and Bettystown ); J Dempsey (Royal Curragh); L O'Connor (Stackstown); S Duffy (Westmanstown); L Doran (Ardee)
NS W Todd (Blackwood)
RTD S Prendergast (The Royal Dublin)
