Hard luck to our Ladies Senior Foursomes Team, the Connaught champions, who lost out to Dun Laoghaire in a closely contested competition by 2 matches to 1. Dun Laoghaire lost out in the final to Killarney who are the All Ireland champions 2014. The winner of the Sunday competition was Barry Garvin with 42 points. In second place was Tom Higgins Jnr. with 42 points also. Alan Hill won the gross prize with 36 points and Kevin Kenny was in third place with 41 points. The winner of the last Open Friday competition for this year was David Flynn with 42 points. John Cleary from Portumna was in second place with 41 points. Annie Timothy won the ladies competition with 33 points. June Halliday was the winner of the ladies’ Tuesday competition with 39 points. Sandra Kelly was in second place with 38 points (back 3) and Yvonne Waldron was in third place with 38 points also. John Carter was the winner of the Over 55s competition on Thursday. Benny Mulhern was in second place and Michael Sharkey was in third place. Margaret Kennedy won the ladies’ competition. Mary O’Gara was in second place and Margaret Egan was in third place. It’s Christmas Hamper time with men’s Over 55s competition on Thursday and the Christmas Hamper (Mixed), sponsored by Marty Kiernan (Railway Bar) on next Sunday. The GUI was very impressed with the efficient manner that the club hosted the Inaugural Irish Mid-Amateur Competition last June and the positive feedback that they received from the participants. The good news for the club is that the GUI has allocated the Irish Seniors Amateur Open Competition to Roscommon in 2015. The AGM will take place on October 19^th at 8 pm with the men’s and ladies’ clubs annual meetings taking place at 6 pm. The Professional Philip Murphy is available for individual or group lessons and can be contacted on 086 8894232.  People thinking of taking up golf in the coming year would do well to start on the right foot and take lessons.