Kinsale’s Shane Kenneally overcame some early round wobbles to post a one-under at Sherry Golf Jerez in Cadiz and sit just one shot off the lead at the halfway stage of the 36-hole Spanish Senior Amateur Championship.
Among the early starters off the 10th tee in the opening round, Kenneally was slow out of the traps, carding bogeys on each of his opening three holes but steadied the ship with three pars before starting his climb back up the leaderboard with back-to-back birdies on 16 and 17.
Another brace of birdies, again coming back-to-back on five and six got him into red figures for the first time and he’d par his way home to sign for a one-under 71 that was an excellent return in tough scoring conditions, leaving him one back and in a nine-way tie for fourth.
David Mulholland of Castlerock looked poised to set the clubhouse target when he birdied the sixth – his 15th – to move to -3, but a disappointing bogey, double bogey finish saw him slip back to level par but remains well in the mix in tied 13th position.
Joe Lyons, who arrived as defending champion and fresh off a third-place finish alongside Karl Bornemann in the pairs event which concluded yesterday, is one shot further adrift on +1, while Eddie McCormack (+4), Bournemann, Peter Sheehan and Declan O’Neill (+5) all made the halfway cut which excluded those at +6 and above.
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