Roscommon Golf Club defend prestigious title

Roscommon successfully defended their AIG Women’s Senior Foursomes title on the 18th green in dramatic fashion.

With match two going the way of Roscommon and match three to Mallow, it came down to match one. Sinead Benedetti and Anne Quirke versus Jennifer Hickey and Nora O’Connor to decide the destination of the pennant.

And ultimately, the Roscommon experience helped them over the line with Benedetti’s ten-foot putt the clincher for a 1up win and 2-1 success overall.

“We are absolutely thrilled and delighted with ourselves to have done it because it is no easy feat and even to get to a final is no easy feat so we got a little bit lucky. But we played some super golf over the three days and I am absolutely delighted for the girls, they well deserve it and it’s well-earned at this stage,” Roscommon captain Annie Timothy told Golf Ireland.

“It’s a three-day gig and you have to play good golf in order to come out the other side, I’m sure on the other half of the draw Mallow played equally as good golf to get here but on the day it’s a little bit of luck, along with good golf and there was fabulous golf out there today.

“I was feeling fine after the front nine, I said they are doing it to me again, they are kind of down a bit here and up a bit there and I said we are still nowhere near the finish line. It was the 17th that gave us a little bit of confidence coming down the 18th but then we had the little mishap and we kind of said 19 looks a little bit ominous here.

“But in fairness to Sinead she had a superb putt to close out the match and they did absolutely super. Absolutely delighted.”