Joey Purcell

"They want to be the F1 driver, squirting champagne ... they don’t want the work, the graft"

The Irish golfing universe is full of ambitious youngsters who’d give their right arms to play on tour but have zero interest in joining the P.G.A. But in one of the great ironies of golf, Damien McGrane, the European Tour veteran with close to €5 million in career earnings to his name, never wanted to be anything other than a P.G.A. professional.

"They want to be the F1 driver, squirting champagne ... they don’t want the work, the graft"