Jack Hume won all four of the boys provincial championships in 2010 but while he claimed the West of Ireland title in 2014, his CV was lacking a major international win until this week.

Tullamore’s Stuart Grehan is just a shot off the pace heading into Friday’s final round of the South African Stroke Play Championship.

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England (Sept. 13) -- Great Britain and Ireland defeated the United States of America, 16½-9½, Sunday in the 45th Walker Cup Match at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club, write the USGA and R&A.

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England (Sept. 12) -- Great Britain and Ireland leads the USA, 7-5, after the first day of the 45th Walker Cup Match at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club, writes the USGA.

Walker Cup hopefuls Jack Hume, Dermot McElroy and Cormac Sharvin kept the leaders in their sights midway through the Brabazon Trophy on the heathland at Hollinwell.

He won by three shots in the end but it there was a world of emotion bookended between the 400-yard drive and a six-foot putt that topped and tailed Gavin Moynihan’s second Irish Amateur Open victory in the space of four years.

Hermitage's Rowan Lester is just one win away from joining Irish winners Jimmy Bruen, John Glover, Ronan Rafferty and Leslie Walker in the history books after he compiled two impressive victories to reach Sunday's final of the 88th British Boys Amateur Championship at Prestwick - the original home of the Open Championship.

Hermitage's Rowan Lester produced some sensational golf to move into the quarterfinals of the British Boys Amateur Open Championship at Prestwick.