Kirkistown Castle’s Beth Coulter slipped three shots off the lead in the Flogas Irish Women’s and Girls’ Amateur Open Championship as Scotland’s Lorna McClymont shot another course record to take a three-stroke lead into Sunday’s final round.
Desperation is a terrible thing but with just a few hours to go before my tee time in the annual Irish Golf Writers’ Association Championship — a gymkana for the afflicated who watch great golfers and then fail utterly to replicate anythng they have seen — I’m searching for my swing.
The walls are lined with photgraphs and newspaper cuttings of the great days of yesteryear — the Carroll's International, the revived Irish Open and myriad other big events that saw figures such as Tom Watson, Max Faulkner, Tony Jacklin, Peter Thomson and Christy O'Connor Snr and Jnr play their parts on the great stage that is Woodbrook Golf Club.
