The Qualifying section of the 2018 Pat Kirk ltd Sponsored Winter League is now underway and runs until Sunday 25th November, entries are still being taken with ample enough playing time left to get the eight from ten rounds in and claim one of the 16 Qualifying places on offer in the final.
The scoring in round one so far is very close with two teams tied at the top of the leaderboard
Team 2 Adrian Browne & Peter Kemish and Team 16 Davy Wilson & Brendan Gallagher having returned fine scores of 45 points, hold a slender two points lead over the rest of the field with six teams within five points of the leaders.
Leading Teams Round 1
| Team 1 | Adrian Browne | & | Peter Kemish | 45pts |
| Team 16 | Davy Wilson | & | Brendan Gallagher | 45pts |
| Team 12 | John A Lafferty | & | Gary Kennedy | 43pts |
| Team 11 | Paul Cassidy | & | Liam Mc Closkey | 43pts |
| Team 22 | Andy Mc Keever | & | Mark Duddy | 42pts |
| Team 5 | Gary Mc Elroy | & | Michael Coyle | 42pts |
| Team 3 | Jason Murray | & | Terry Cavanagh | 41pts |
| Team 14 | Conor O’ Doherty | & | Declan Coyle | 40pts |
