Mighty Moate’s Mixed fortune

HAVING ousted the holders Enniscrone in Thursday’s semi-final, Moate overcame Newcastle West by three and a half matches to one and a half to capture the BMW sponsored Irish Mixed Foursomes at Monkstown Golf Club yesterday.

In doing so, the Westmeath Club won their first green pennant in this competition and the third in the Club’s history, having won the Jimmy Bruen in 1998 at neighbouring Athlone before clinching the Junior Cup at Lahinch in the millennium year.

Eamonn Darcy was the leading Irishman on day one of the Bovis Lend Lease European Senior Masters at Woburn yesterday after carding a level par round of 72, over the Duke’s Course.