Jordan Hood is tied for 10th place but fellow Maynooth University team mate Ronan Mullarney was the only other Irish player to make the 54-hole cut in the Portuguese International Amateur Championship.

Jordan Hood is the only Irish player inside the cut mark after 36 holes of the Portuguese International Amateur Open at Montado Hotel & Golf Resort.

It was a disappointing opening day for the Irish in the Portuguese International Amateur Championship at Montado, south of Lisbon.

Walker Cup stars Gavin Moynihan, Paul Dunne and Gary Hurley have left the amateur ranks to pursue their careers in the professional game but the same old questions remain with it comes to the make up of the Golfing Union of Ireland's panels for the coming season.

Keith Egan proved that his brother Tom is not the only dangerous fighter in the family when he took out veteran Pat Murray with a brilliant birdie at the 23rd to reach the semi-finals of the South of Ireland Amateur Open at Lahinch.

Pat Murray kept his dream of second South of Ireland and a third amateur major alive when he came back from two down after 12 to oust defending champion Stuart Bleakley in the third round at Lahinch.

Defending champion Stuart Bleakley insists that reputations will count for nothing when he tees it up against Lahinch legend Pat Murray in the last 16 of the South of Ireland Amateur Open on Saturday.

Whitehead’s John Ross Galbraith made up for the disappointment of letting the St Andrews Links Trophy slip away when he beat Rosslare’s Gary Collins with a birdie four on the 20th in high winds at Royal Portrush to capture the North of Ireland Amateur Open title.

The Irish selectors will have a tough task on their hands after Gary Collins, Caolan Rafferty, John Ross Galbraith and David Sutton surged into Friday's semi-finals of the Cathedral Eye sponsored North of Ireland Amateur Open at Royal Portrush.

The cream rose to the top on the first day of matchplay combat in the Cathedral Eye sponsored North of Ireland Championship with a host of challengers for international caps moving into the last 16.

A first Irish win since Paul Cutler triumphed five years ago could open the doors to the Walker Cup in the Lytham Trophy this weekend.

Gary Collins shot the equivalent of an eight under 64 to shave a shot off the course record at Rosslare on Saturday.

Castle's Daniel Holland is just four shots off the lead entering Saturday's final round of the weather-shortened Portuguese Amateur Open Championship near Lisbon.

England's Ashley Chesters became the first player to retain the European Amateur Championship last year. Now he's bidding to add the Portuguese Amateur Championship to his CV after posting a six under 66 to take the clubhouse lead after Thursday's fog-delayed second round.

Castle's Daniel Holland and Rosslare's Gary Collins got off to a sub-par starts in the Portuguese Amateur Open Championship as Ardee's Eugene Smith produced an dramatic comeback from disaster.

He might have been dropped from the GUI's national senior panel at the grand old age of 27, but that's hardly going to stop Geoff Lenehan in this week's Portuguese Amateur Open Championship.