Dessie motors to victory in Donnelly & Taggart event at Raceview

Michael Smyth, Michael Scroggie, Eddie Gilmore and Martin Agnew ready to tee off in the Donnelly & Taggart competition at Ballymena Golf Club. INBT 23-901H

The Donnelly & Taggart-sponsored stableford competition at Ballymena Golf Club saw Dessie McCartney motor to a four-point winning margin.

The 17-handicapper, a past Captain and current secretary at Raceview, opened his account with a trio of pars, only to drop three shots over the next two holes.

However, he went on to play the next four holes with three pars plus a bogey on the par three seventh, for a total of 22 points.

Into the homeward nine with a par, followed by two bogeys, he then added four pars and completed his round with bogeys at each of the last two holes for a further 23 points.

Second place, some four points back, came Cameron Horner with a total of 41 points and on a better second nine hole score from Ryan Hamill.

Cameron shed a shot on his first hole but retrieved it with a birdie on the fourth, only to drop shots at the fifth and sixth but again he managed to peg back one of those shots with a birdie at the ninth to be out in one over gross for 21 points.

The second nine accounted for dropped shots at 10, 11 and 14 but again he picked up a shot on the final hole, with the other five holes producing pars.