Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links
Ger Hall defied 70 kph winds to birdie the last and win the second TaylorMade Winter Series outing of the season at Portmarnock Links.
He topped a 62-strong field that at least enjoyed blue skies and balmy temperatures, carding a three-over 74 to win the nett by a shot from Portmarnock Links' four-handicapper Eamonn Keane.
Out in three-over, Hall bogeyed the 15th but then birdied the last to record a best-of-the-day 74 and pip Keane as Naas' David Marshall finished third with a 76 off three.
Douglas international Peter O'Keeffe won the gross with a four-over 75, pipping Roganstown professional Brendan Walton, who tees it up in the Irish PGA at Galway Bay on Thursday, by one.
Playing off plus four, O'Keeffe sandwiched a birdie four at the sixth between bogeys at the second and ninth to go out in one-over before dropping shots at the 12th, 13th and 15th as he came home into the teeth of the wind.
Walton went out in four over par by following a bogey at the second with a bogey-double bogey-bogey run into the wind at the eighth, ninth and 10th.
Another bogey followed on the 12th hole but he dug deep and went birdie-bogey-birdie from the 14th to the 16th before finishing with a couple of pars.
Portmarnock Links' Declan O'Neill was third with a gross 76
Players teeing it up next week will receive a free sleeve of TaylorMade TP5 balls.
TaylorMade Winter Series, Portmarnock Links
(Par 71; SSS 75; CSS 78)
Nett
1st Ger Hall (Pro) Edenderry Golf Academy 74
2nd Eamonn Keane (4) The Links Portmarnock 75
3rd David Marshall (3) Naas 76
Gross
1st Peter O'Keeffe (+4) Douglas 75
2nd Brendan Walton (Pro) Roganstown 76
3rd Declan O'Neill (Scratch) The Links Portmarnock 76
from News - Irish Golf Desk https://ift.tt/2OLtmno
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