Threesomes Cup
Port St Mary welcomed a good field of 21 teams to their green for the annual men’s threesomes competition once again kindly sponsored by Colas I.O.M Ltd, the weather started out fair but a couple of showers during the course of the afternoon put a slight dampener on things but helped to take the sting out of the fast and tricky green.
The eventual winners were the team of Jordan Cain, Bob Clarke and Matthew Quirk (Onchan/Douglas) who seemed to run through the competition with consummate ease, in the semi-finals they ended the chances of a home victory by beating the team of Wayne Roberts, Pete Collins and Tom Collins (P.S.M) by a score of 21-10 and following this up with the victory in the final against the Marown trio of Walter McCarthey, Tom Kelly and Colin Kelly by a score of 21-15 which was as close as anyone got to the winners all day.
Walter, Tom and Colin had maybe played their final in the round before where they overcame the challenge of John Kennish, Alan Moore and Glynn Hargraves from South Ramsey 21-20 in an exciting encounter which was decided on a measure, it was even more of a feat when you consider that Walter is in his first season of playing the sport after only taking it up a few months ago so well done to him.
At the end of play club president Ken Karran thanked everyone who had helped in the running of the competition and preparation of the green and also a big thanks to the ladies section of the club who once again worked tirelessly to keep everyone fed and watered throughout the day, he then introduced Ian Dunbar who was appearing on behalf of the sponsors (Colas I.O.M Ltd) to hand out the prizes and the trophy to the victors.