Woodstock golfers primed to help keep Clare in the headlines

THE GOLFERS of Woodstock Golf Club near Ennis are poised to get a memorable weekend for Clare off to the best possible start.

They qualified yesterday for the final of the Bulmers Pierce Purcell Shield at Galway Golf Club with a great backs-to-the-wall victory over Loughrea, and now come up against Moyola Park from Castledawson who were clear winners over Castlewarden in the other semi-final.

There is a close hurling connection with the Woodstock squad and it becomes even stronger today with the introduction of the former Clare player Martin Meehan along with John Condon, although, ironically, they are replacing John O’Connor, a cousin of the famous Jamesie, and Frank Doherty.