DP World Tour: Amgen Irish Open Tee Times Leaderboard
" Irish sport is amazing, we're a small country, I feel like we punch above our weight in many sports, and we're certainly great people at getting behind or Sports people" Shane Lowry, 2009 Irish Open Champion.
Katie Taylor won Olympic gold in 2012
82,000 Irish men and women packed Croke Park to watch their legendary boxer Katie Taylor, now 40 beat Flora Pili to retire as an all time two weight world boxing champion on September 6.
This weekend not far from Doonbeg GC at a sold out Lahinch GC GB&Ire staged the greatest comeback in Walker Cup history, winning the Sunday afternoon singles 7-3 to beat heavily favoured USA 13.5 to 12.5 led by Ireland's 33 year old Stuart Grehan who beat the world #1 amateur Preston Stout twice in the matches.
Former Champion, Padraig Harrington is playing his 31st Irish Open, "It's the first won I circle to play every year, I think they'll love me still, even if I play rubbish"
Rory is here defending his title, his eagle at the 72nd hole last year to force the playoff which he won, brought Ireland to it's collective knees.
This is the setting this morning as one of the European Tour's best tournaments got under way, the Amgen Irish Open, on this difficult modern links style Trump International Golf Links formerly Doonbeg GC
Rory is playing it for the first time, "Tough opening holes with the water on the left, and the wind, tough closing holes as well" , he is in the late wave.
His Ryder Cup colleague Sepp Straka leads -4 through 9 holes with 6 players at -3.
more to follow....
Bryan Angus
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