McIlroy narrows his focus: "If you need someone to shoot between even par and 2-under, I'm your man"
Like the distracted student who suddenly finds some focus three weeks before a major examination, Rory McIlroy showed signs of emerging from his post-lockdown funk out the outskirt of Chicago last night.
US Amateur: Solid Dunne refuses to budge at Olympia Fields; reaches quarters and looks dangerous
Paul Dunne is making a habit of creating history and if he wins against the confident young American Bryson DeChambeau in today’s quarter-finals of the US Amateur Championship he will become the first Irishman to reach the last four since Joe Carr at Pebble Beach 54 years ago.
Dunne beats food poisoning to progress as Hurley and Sharvin face US Amateur KO
Greystones’ Paul Dunne battled food poisoning and exhaustion to qualify for today’s first matchplay round of the weather-delayed US Amateur Championship but Gary Hurley and Cormac Sharvin face an uphill task to keep their hopes alive.
Fighting Irish stick to their guns at Olympia Fields
Al Capone once shot himself in the left leg when he played one of his regular money matches at Olympia Fields near Chicago. But Ireland’s trio of US Amateur Championship contenders merely gave themselves flesh wounds in the foot before hobbling away from the first qualifying round with their hopes intact of making the too 64 who will go into matchplay combat on Wednesday.
