Mungovan leads the way in battle for the South

HEADFORD’S Greg Mungovan was the surprise leader after the qualifying rounds of the Clare Coast hotels-sponsored South of Ireland Championship at Lahinch last night.

Early morning fog shrouded the famous Clare links from daybreak and, as it persisted for more than three hours, the championship committee was left with little option but to limit the second qualifying round to nine holes.

It wasn’t the most satisfactory situation but veteran Noel Pyne from Ennis wasn’t complaining. A member of the Clare team that played Tipperary in the final of the Munster hurling championship in 1967, he is now 65 and competing in his 48th successive “South”.