Douglas’s Peter O’Keeffe and Laytown and Bettystown’s Alex Maguire kept their feet on the ground after battling their way into the quarter-finals of the Amateur Championship at Royal Lytham and St Annes.

Kilkenny’s Mark Power will face fellow Irishman Alex Maguire for a place in the last 16 of the Amateur Championship at Royal Lytham and St Annes.

Ballyliffin Golf Club in Co Donegal achieved a major coup yesterday when the R&A was announced it will become just the fourth Irish links to host the Amateur Championship in 2024.

JB Carr was born 100 years ago today and he had a major impact on the game of golf, not only in Ireland, but worldwide.

Joe Long savoured success at Royal Birkdale to win The 125th Amateur Championship.

Kilkenny’s Mark Power confessed he was “gutted” to lose 3&2 to England’s Joe Harvey in the semi-finals fo The 125th Amateur Championship at Royal Birkdale.

Kilkenny’s Mark Power kept hopes of back-to-back Irish champions alive when he battled his way into the quarter-finals in The 125th Amateur Championship and at Royal Birkdale.

Four Irish players advanced to day two of matchplay combat in the Amateur and Women’s Amateur Championships on England’s west coast.

Lisburn’s Paula Grant shot a level par 72 to finish a shot behind the leading qualifiers — the English trio of Emily Price, Rosie Belsham and Isabelle Simpson, Italy’s Carolina Melgrati and Denmark’s Amalie Leth-Nissen — in the Women’s Amateur Championship at West Lancashire.

Storm Francis forced the R&A to abandon the first round of strokeplay qualifying for The Amateur Championship and The Women's Amateur Championship in the UK.

Sixteen Irish golfers will tee it up in The Amateur and Women’s Amateur championships at Royal Birkdale and West Lancashire respectively this week.