Five-star Buckley takes King of the Roads title
An equally impressive Silke Tulk stormed past the line in 14 shots to win the Global Catering Queen of the Roads against Carmel Ryan. Earlier David Devlin and Mairéad O’Driscoll gave Ireland its first Maas Engineering Youth International Triple Crown. PJ Cooney repeated his brilliant form of Friday to beat James Oliver in the Jim O’Dricoll Cup final.
Buckley was brilliant in King of the Roads. The lead changed hands with each of the first four shots, with Murphy taking the first and Buckley the fourth with a brilliant bowl to the creamery. He was past the no-play line in two more, which gave him a big advantage when Murphy missed with his sixth. He followed with a massive bowl to O’Riordan’s, which put him almost a bowl in front. The crowing shot though was his next, razor tight to the right bend that ran to the top of the long straight to increase his lead to almost two bowls. He opened the big corner after Murphy unluckily missed when his 12th was taken off the road by a pothole.
