Kelly Mallon and Carmel Ryan to contest final

Kelly Mallon and Carmel Ryan will contest tomorrow’s Global Catering Queen of the Roads final after impressive wins at Ballincurrig yesterday.

Ryan beat Munster champion Catriona O’Farrell Kidney and Germany’s Anke Klöpper. Mallon dominated the second half of her semi-final in which Claire O’Sullivan gave a great display, but Dutch champion Silke Tulk never got into her stride. Klöpper played and won the first shot of the festival, but just a metre separated her from O’Farrell-Kidney in third with Ryan sandwiched between them.

All three were at the sycamores in three with O’Farrell-Kidney leading. Both Ryan and Klöpper missed sight at the top of the short straight and O’Farrell-Kidney got a big shot to go a bowl clear. Both Ryan and O’Farrell Kidney missed the big corner as Klöpper made it to draw level, with Ryan a bowl behind. Ryan closed the gap past Leahy’s, but it was her brilliant bowl to O’Riordan’s that put her back in contention.