Royal Dublin first-day summary and scoreboard

IRISH MEN'S OPEN AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
Royal Dublin Golf Club
ROUND ONE SCORES
Par 72  CSS 75
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69: Thomas Mulligan (Co. Louth), Colm Campbell Jnr (Warrenpoint), Gavin Moynihan (The Island), Colin Fairweather (Knock), Alexander Culverwell (Sco), Evan Griffiths (Wales), Luke Trocado (South Africa), Richard  James (Wales), Jack Hume (Naas)
70: William Enefer (England), Jeff Hopkins (The Royal Dublin), John Ross Galbraith (Whitehead), Gary Collins (Rosslare), Dermot McElroy (Ballymena), Robin Dawson (Faithlegg/MU), Lukas Lipold (Austria)
71: Connor Syme (Sco), Craig Ross (Sco), Tom Gandy (Isle of Man), Kevin LeBlanc (The Island), Marco Penge (England), Tim Harry (Wales), Gary Hurley (West Waterford/MU), Seamus Cullen (Slieve Russell), Ollie Roberts (Hong Kong)
72: Mark Morrissey (Mount Wolseley), Cormac Sharvin (Ardglass), Vitor Lopes (Portugal), Jack McDonald (Sco), Greig Marchbank (Sco), Marco Iten (Switzerland), Tomas Bessa (Portugal), Rowan Lester (Hermitage), Markus Habeler (Austria), Stuart Grehan (Tullamore/MU), Kyle McCarron (North West/MU), Marc Nolan (Delgany), John Hickey (Cork), Jonathan Yates (Naas), Christian Braeunig (Germany)
73: Scott Gibson (Scotland), Jack Mc Donnell (Forrest Little/MU), Michael Hirmer (Germany), Shaun Carter (Royal Dublin), Richard Bridges (Stackstown), Jamie Savage (Scotland), Conor O'Rourke (Naas)
74: Kevin Reints (Netherlands), Stuart Bleakley (Shandon Park), Matthew Jordan (England), Caolan Rafferty Dundalk), Jack Pierse (Portmarnock), Marcel Zillekens (Germany), Michael Ludwig (Austria), Barry Anderson (Royal Dublin), Ryan Symington (Lisburn), Michael Sinclair (Knock), James Allan (England),
Eanna Griffin (Waterford)
75: Jarand Ekeland Arnoy (Norway), Adam Wilson (Wales), Andy Borg (Malta), Shaun O'Connor (Carton House), Damon Coulson (England), Claudio Consul (Germany), Eoin Arthurs (Forrest Little.), Aaron Grant (Dundalk), Stephen Coulter (Warrenpoint), Simon Bryan (Delgany), Christopher MacLean (Sco), Anthony Blaney (Sco)
76: Jake Whelan (Newlands/MU), Edward Richardson (England), Ewen Ferguson (Sco), John Morris (Rosslare), Alex
Gleeson (Castle), Gary McDermott (Carton House), Sean Flanagan (Co. Sligo/MU), Ronan Mullarney (Galway/MU), Sean Ryan (Royal Dublin), Robert Cannon (Balbriggan), Ian O'Rourke (Royal Dublin), Jan Szmidt (Poland)
77: Declan Loftus (Castlebar/MU), Mathias Eggenberger
 (Switzerland), Axel Boasson (Iceland), Declan O'Neill (Carton House), Colin Baird (Sco), Stephen Healy (Carton House), Eugene Smith  (Ardee), Eoin Leonard (Wentworth), Nick Macandrew (Sco), Nicholas Poppleton (England), Ben Best (Rathmore), Gianmaria Rean Trinchero  (Italy), Sigot Lopez (Spain)
78: Tiarnan McLarnon (Massereene), Michele Cea (Italy), Gordon Stevenson (Sco), Michael Hegemann (Germany), Michael Reid (Galgorm Castle), James Smedley (England), Richard Knightly (Royal Dublin)
79: Johannes Lube (Germany), Gavin Fitzmaurice (Balcarrick), Mark Shanahan (Castlemartyr), Jack Bush (Wales), James Fox (Portmarnock)
80: Roy Connolly (Palmerstown Stud), Cedomir Ilic (Serbia)
81: Petr Dedek (Czech Republic), Mel Loetscher (Switzerland), Shane McGlynn (Carton House)
82: Murray Naysmith (Sco), Ashley Mason (England), John McGinn (Laytown and Bettystown)
83: Seve Prins (Netherlands), Paul Coughlan (Moate)
84: Thomas Hackett (USA)
85: Casper Simberg (Finland)

Culverwell in nine-way tie for lead on three-under 69

he early birds made the most of a benign morning to set the pace at the top of a congested leaderboard on day one at the Irish Amateur Open Championship.

• 07 May 2015
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Nine players are tied together at the top as 69 proved a popular number on a day when Royal Dublin yielded more than expected. Calm conditions were a welcome change for the first round and five Irish players are among the leading group at three under.

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Louth teenager Thomas Mulligan led the way, posting the first 69 of the day as well as setting the clubhouse target having teed off first at 7am. The 16-year-old came home in 33 (four under) thanks to four birdies on the back nine.

Mulligan, who was the first to arrive at Royal Dublin this morning after a 5am wake-up call, made a spectacular start with an eagle on the second from 10 feet having reached in two with a seven iron. Three bogeys followed however as Mulligan's early momentum stalled but he reached the turn at one over and got back on track with a birdie on the par-five 11th.

"It's easy to keep patient when you know there are birdie chances out there," said Mulligan. "I knew I was putting well."

He came close to a second eagle on 14 when his pitch hit the flag but unluckily for Mulligan, his ball ran down the flag and ricocheted off the hole before coming to rest 15 feet away from the pin. His frustrations were quickly forgotten when he drained the putt and he followed up with further birdies on 15 and 16.

His 69 was matched by Walker Cup panellists Jack Hume and Gavin Moynihan, the 2012 Irish Amateur champion. Hume got to four under with his fifth birdie of the day on the 11th but a three-putt bogey on 16 left him in a share of the lead.

"Apart from that (bogey on 16) it was pretty solid today," said the Naas player, who came close to winning at Royal Dublin in 2013. Moynihan picked up three shots in his last five holes thanks to an eagle three on 14. Knock's Colin Fairweather and Warrenpoint's Colm Campbell also made the most of their early starts to reach the clubhouse at three under while South African, Luke Trocado, the lowest man in the field, also posted 69. Welshman Richard James, who finished second in the Lytham Trophy last week, is also in the mix and would have taken a one-shot lead were it not for a bogey on the final hole.

Faithlegg's Robin Dawson had the cleanest card of the day, making two birdies and 16 pars during a bogey-free round. The Waterford man, who is also a Paddy Harrington golf scholar at Maynooth University, was two under at the turn and came home with nine straight pars.

"Normally you're trying to make birdies downwind and trying to save it coming back into the wind. There was opportunities coming back into the wind today. Unfortunately I didn't take any," said Dawson, who was tied 14th last year, eight shots behind the winner Jamie Savage. The defending champion got off to a slow start with a round of 73, which leaves him in the middle of the pack.

John-Ross Galbraith, Dermot McElroy, Jeff Hopkins and Gary Collins are among a seven-strong group at two under while Gary Hurley and Kevin LeBlanc are well placed at one under. Cormac Sharvin made a good recovery on the back nine having dropped to three over through 12. Birdies at 13, 14 and 16 saw him finish level alongside Stuart Grehan, John Hickey, Mark Morrissey, Rowan Lester, Marc Nolan and Kyle McCarron. 2013 champion Robbie Cannon is seven shots back after a 76. As things currently stand the cut would fall at two over.

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The early birds made the most of a benign morning to set the pace at the top of a congested leaderboard on day one at the Irish Amateur Open Championship .

Nine players, including former Scottish amateur champion Alexander Culverwell (Dunbar), pictured, are tied together at the top as three-under-par 69 proved a popular number on a day when Royal Dublin yielded more than expected. Calm conditions were a welcome change for the first round and five Irish players are among the leading group at three under.
Louth teenager Thomas Mulligan led the way, posting the first 69 of the day as well as setting the clubhouse target having teed off first at 7am. The 16-year-old came home in 33 (four under) thanks to four birdies on the back nine.
Mulligan, who was the first to arrive at Royal Dublin this morning after a 5am wake-up call, made a spectacular start with an eagle on the second from 10 feet having reached in two with a seven iron. Three bogeys followed however as Mulligan's early momentum stalled but he reached the turn at one over and got back on track with a birdie on the par-five 11th.
"It's easy to keep patient when you know there are birdie chances out there," said Mulligan. "I knew I was putting well."
He came close to a second eagle on 14 when his pitch hit the flag but unluckily for Mulligan, his ball ran down the flag and ricocheted off the hole before coming to rest 15 feet away from the pin. His frustrations were quickly forgotten when he drained the putt and he followed up with further birdies on 15 and 16.
Walker Cup panellists Jack Hume and Gavin Moynihan, the 2012 Irish Amateur champion and last year's Scottish open amateur stroke-play title-winner at Panmure,  joined the throng on 69.
 Hume got to four under with his fifth birdie of the day on the 11th but a three-putt bogey on 16 left him in a share of the lead.
"Apart from that (bogey on 16) it was pretty solid today," said the Naas player, who came close to winning at Royal Dublin in 2013. Moynihan picked up three shots in his last five holes. thanks to an eagle 3 on 14.
Knock's Colin Fairweather and Warrenpoint's Colm Campbell also made the most of their early starts to reach the clubhouse at three under while South African, Luke Trocado, also posted 69. Welshman Richard James, who finished second in the Lytham Trophy last Sunday, is also in the mix and would have taken a one-shot lead were it not for a bogey on the final hole.
Faithlegg's Robin Dawson had the cleanest card of the day, making two birdies and 16 pars during a bogey-free round. The Waterford man, who is also a Paddy Harrington golf scholar at Maynooth University, was two under at the turn and came home with nine straight pars.
"Normally you're trying to make birdies downwind and trying to save it coming back into the wind. There was opportunities coming back into the wind today. Unfortunately I didn't take any," said Dawson, who was tied 14th last year, eight shots behind the winner Jamie Savage.
The defending champion got off to a slow start with a round of 73, which leaves him in the middle of the pack.
John-Ross Galbraith, Dermot McElroy, Jeff Hopkins and Gary Collins are among a seven-strong group at two under while Gary Hurley and Kevin LeBlanc are well placed at one under. Cormac Sharvin made a good recovery on the back nine having dropped to three over through 12. Birdies at 13, 14 and 16 saw him finish level alongside Stuart Grehan, John Hickey, Mark Morrissey, Rowan Lester, Marc Nolan and Kyle McCarron. 2013 champion Robbie Cannon is seven shots back after a 76. As things currently stand the cut would fall at two over.
Which means that Ewan Ferguson (76), Colin Baird(77) and Nick Macandrew (77) will need to pull their shocks up in Round 2.

he early birds made the most of a benign morning to set the pace at the top of a congested leaderboard on day one at the Irish Amateur Open Championship.

• 07 May 2015
• -

 0  0 Google +0  0

Nine players are tied together at the top as 69 proved a popular number on a day when Royal Dublin yielded more than expected. Calm conditions were a welcome change for the first round and five Irish players are among the leading group at three under.

CLICK HERE FOR LIVE SCORING

Louth teenager Thomas Mulligan led the way, posting the first 69 of the day as well as setting the clubhouse target having teed off first at 7am. The 16-year-old came home in 33 (four under) thanks to four birdies on the back nine.

Mulligan, who was the first to arrive at Royal Dublin this morning after a 5am wake-up call, made a spectacular start with an eagle on the second from 10 feet having reached in two with a seven iron. Three bogeys followed however as Mulligan's early momentum stalled but he reached the turn at one over and got back on track with a birdie on the par-five 11th.

"It's easy to keep patient when you know there are birdie chances out there," said Mulligan. "I knew I was putting well."

He came close to a second eagle on 14 when his pitch hit the flag but unluckily for Mulligan, his ball ran down the flag and ricocheted off the hole before coming to rest 15 feet away from the pin. His frustrations were quickly forgotten when he drained the putt and he followed up with further birdies on 15 and 16.

His 69 was matched by Walker Cup panellists Jack Hume and Gavin Moynihan, the 2012 Irish Amateur champion. Hume got to four under with his fifth birdie of the day on the 11th but a three-putt bogey on 16 left him in a share of the lead.

"Apart from that (bogey on 16) it was pretty solid today," said the Naas player, who came close to winning at Royal Dublin in 2013. Moynihan picked up three shots in his last five holes thanks to an eagle three on 14. Knock's Colin Fairweather and Warrenpoint's Colm Campbell also made the most of their early starts to reach the clubhouse at three under while South African, Luke Trocado, the lowest man in the field, also posted 69. Welshman Richard James, who finished second in the Lytham Trophy last week, is also in the mix and would have taken a one-shot lead were it not for a bogey on the final hole.

Faithlegg's Robin Dawson had the cleanest card of the day, making two birdies and 16 pars during a bogey-free round. The Waterford man, who is also a Paddy Harrington golf scholar at Maynooth University, was two under at the turn and came home with nine straight pars.

"Normally you're trying to make birdies downwind and trying to save it coming back into the wind. There was opportunities coming back into the wind today. Unfortunately I didn't take any," said Dawson, who was tied 14th last year, eight shots behind the winner Jamie Savage. The defending champion got off to a slow start with a round of 73, which leaves him in the middle of the pack.

John-Ross Galbraith, Dermot McElroy, Jeff Hopkins and Gary Collins are among a seven-strong group at two under while Gary Hurley and Kevin LeBlanc are well placed at one under. Cormac Sharvin made a good recovery on the back nine having dropped to three over through 12. Birdies at 13, 14 and 16 saw him finish level alongside Stuart Grehan, John Hickey, Mark Morrissey, Rowan Lester, Marc Nolan and Kyle McCarron. 2013 champion Robbie Cannon is seven shots back after a 76. As things currently stand the cut would fall at two over.

- See more at: https://www.golfnet.ie/news/gui/264/LIVE%20-%20Hume,%20Moynihan%20lead%20at%20Royal%20Dublin#sthash.XKbXM8VP.dpuf

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