Road Bowling: Brilliant closing bowl gives James O’Donovan upper hand over Aidan Murphy

James O'Donovan

James O’Donovan beat Aidan Murphy in the last shot of the feature score in the Seán Collins Benefit series at Templemartin on Sunday.

He won the first tip by 30m, but Murphy took the second. O’Donovan won a big lead with a massive bowl to peeping light at Slyne’s corner. He increased that to 100m at the cornfield gap. Murphy cut that lead to just 10m with a big bowl past O’Riordan’s. He only made the end of Collins’ wall with his next. O’Donovan pushed his odds to 100m again and held a good lead through the schoolhouse cross. Murphy missed the stonefield bend with his 11th and O’Donovan made light to extend his lead.