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Title win gives Rice big lift

Timmy Rice has experienced some heat in Toledo, where he is on a golfing scholarship to the state university, but it was nothing…

Tue Jun 23 1998 - 01:00

Curragh seek first Senior Cup

Lillian Behan and Oonagh Purfield are poised to renew their Irish Close final rivalry when the ILGU Senior Cup Finals, sponsored…

Tue Jun 23 1998 - 01:00

Stars use image to build empires

What's in a logo? Greg Norman takes the blandness out of his name by having a multi-coloured shark, Jack Nicklaus plays on his…

Tue Jun 23 1998 - 01:00

Powerscourt centre stage

The Smurfit Irish PGA Championship - which, with a prize fund of £108,000, is the largest closed professional event in Europe…

Tue Jun 23 1998 - 01:00

Where now for Dublin football?

The symbolism was rather apt, even if the actual structure was unquestionably sound. "Hill 16 is falling down, falling down.

Mon Jun 22 1998 - 01:00

Brave Kildare cast out the old demons

Kildare have finally grown up

Mon Jun 22 1998 - 01:00

Power cements his love affair with The Island

Eddie Power would be the first to acknowledge that golf can be a crazy game of co-incidences

Thu Jun 18 1998 - 01:00

Cullen's `long old day'

The lad from the club down the road has been adopted to some extent by the host club members, all of which has done Gary Cullen…

Wed Jun 17 1998 - 01:00

Play golf and help sick children

Play golf and help sick children! It sounds too good to be true, but that's precisely what a major new All-Ireland Inter-Club…

Tue Jun 16 1998 - 01:00

Irish Open News

He's Europe's answer to Tiger Woods, and the hottest amateur in world golf is bound for Druids Glen! Sergio Garcia, the Spaniard…

Tue Jun 16 1998 - 01:00

Ireland's boys have experience

Ireland's quest for a first European Boys' team championship victory will be backboned by players who have already made history…

Tue Jun 16 1998 - 01:00

Madeira fails to attract top names

Life goes on, even with most of the European Tour's big names away chasing the season's second major - the US Open - at the Olympic…

Tue Jun 16 1998 - 01:00

Relieved Omelia finds the key to beating Brady

Like the condemned man who'd discovered the key and unlocked his own cell door, pre-championship favourite Bryan Omelia was suitably…

Tue Jun 16 1998 - 01:00

Symes leads as Fanagan goes out

Amidst the carnage and heartbreak wreaked on scorecards by some devilish rough and greens fast enough to test the upper limits…

Mon Jun 15 1998 - 01:00

Island to test Close contenders

They don't row the boat across Malahide estuary to The Island golf club any more, the course has been realigned since the old…

Sat Jun 13 1998 - 01:00

Clarke given low-key pairing

Darren Clarke, who was the joint leading European player in the US Masters earlier this season, wasn't complaining in New York…

Thu Jun 11 1998 - 01:00

The Nineties in the shades

The nineties have spawned many changes in our perceptions of golf, not least in the area of equipment development

Tue Jun 09 1998 - 01:00

Kearney in form at right time

Ken Kearney's year as Irish champion has been an odyssey of far-flung fairways in pursuit of golfing glory

Tue Jun 09 1998 - 01:00

Dowdall heads Under-21 selection

Four survivors of the team that played in Nairn two years ago have been selected on the Irish team for the European Women's Junior…

Tue Jun 09 1998 - 01:00

Westwood's reputation growing

Lee Westwood possesses the outer demeanour of a comedian, and the inner strength of a judge unafraid to take control of his own…

Mon Jun 08 1998 - 01:00

Young tigers lead hunt

Some of golf's young tigers chose to roar, a number of them even managing to dislodge Colin Montgomerie from the head of the …

Sat Jun 06 1998 - 01:00

Irish stutter and stumble as Montgomerie takes the lead

Apart from the joker in the pack, a tour rookie Frenchman by the name of Nicolas Joakimides, yesterday's first round of the English…

Fri Jun 05 1998 - 01:00

Clarke set for the top says Montgomerie

The lad's come a long way

Thu Jun 04 1998 - 01:00

Enigmatic Louth overrun Wicklow

Louth are as hard to figure out as a rubik's cube

Mon Jun 01 1998 - 01:00

Doherty restored

Alan Doherty is glad to be back in the thick of the action, rather than watching Louth's progress in the Leinster senior football…

Fri May 29 1998 - 01:00

Corcoran out to end barren run for Cork

They knew it wouldn't be easy, but nobody told Cork that it would be so tough

Fri May 29 1998 - 01:00

Hat-trick of holes in one

Maybe it had something to do with the worthy cause - which just happened to be the St Brigid's Hospice in the Curragh - but golfers…

Tue May 26 1998 - 01:00

Promise of East holds off lure of Muirfield

Since bilocation was not an option, Andrew McCormick and David Dunne have resisted the lure of Muirfield and instead will pursue…

Tue May 26 1998 - 01:00

Behan bounces back to the top

Her fortitude has never been questioned, either in Ganton or Prairie Dunes, so, as she stood on the seventh tee-box four down…

Mon May 25 1998 - 01:00

McEvoy conquers adversity

Four years ago, Mandy McEvoy was battling against ovarian cancer and unsure of what the future held.

Sat May 23 1998 - 01:00

Break with tradition as big guns make it through

Hazel Kavanagh's blank expression as she walked off the 18th green would have done justice to a poker player who'd just pulled…

Fri May 22 1998 - 01:00

Fanagan-O'Brien finds her form at the perfect time

The habit is proving quite addictive for Suzie Fanagan-O'Brien, particularly when the time for the national championship comes…

Thu May 21 1998 - 01:00

Course on top as only Coffey matches par

Appearances can be so deceptive, and the hypnotic view from the first tee box down to the azure waters of Belfast Lough lulled…

Wed May 20 1998 - 01:00

Omelia leads St Andrews trio

Bryan Omelia arrived back in Dublin last night, still thinking of what might have been

Tue May 19 1998 - 01:00

Irish Close champion stays cool

Twelve months on, the defending champion has undergone a name change and been promoted onto the British and Irish Curtis Cup …

Tue May 19 1998 - 01:00

McDermott enjoys the perfect homecoming

Some 40 years after departing these shores, the prodigal son returned to conquer

Mon May 18 1998 - 01:00

Woodbrook capitulates to seniors

The man known as "Nevada Bob" was out with his viewcam in the early part of the day, so taken was he with the scenery

Sat May 16 1998 - 01:00

Horton favoured to retain crown

Almost three decades since he swashbuckled his way into the history books by winning the British Open and US Open titles in successive…

Fri May 15 1998 - 01:00

Clubs play smart card in war on red tape

Technology

Tue May 12 1998 - 01:00

Coffey intent on Curtis Cup role

Alison Coffey has become the Irish golfing equivalent of US Tour star David Duval

Tue May 12 1998 - 01:00

Omelia lone Irish raider

Bryan Omelia will be the lone Irish raider in the English Amateur Open Strokeplay Championship - for the Brabazon Trophy - at…

Tue May 12 1998 - 01:00

Milltown begin defence of cup

Milltown, with Irish Close champion Suzie Fanagan back from honeymoon, will set out in defence of their ILGU Eastern District…

Tue May 12 1998 - 01:00

Jones best Irish hope at Woodbrook

When David Jones started out life as a professional golfer almost 30 years ago, he did so by carrying his own clubs and going…

Tue May 12 1998 - 01:00

Tipperary scrape through

Nobody could honestly profess to having seen a team likely to be still playing football in the late summer's heat on the field…

Mon May 11 1998 - 01:00

Football Championship Previews

Tomorrow

Sat May 09 1998 - 01:00

Piling on the pressure in Pierce Purcell

So, you want to know about real pressure on a golf course? Don't be fooled into thinking you'll find it on the 18th green at …

Tue May 05 1998 - 01:00

Irish Open to produce worthy champion

As an addition to any player's curriculum vitae, the Irish Amateur Open Championship - which has witnessed Padraig Harrington…

Tue May 05 1998 - 01:00

St Colman's keep tradition alive

The sight of a young man in a sweat-stained blue jersey bearing the St Colman's of Newry crest clamouring up some steps or other…

Mon May 04 1998 - 01:00

Scrambled goal wins the title

The tide turned in their favour, for once

Sat May 02 1998 - 01:00

Gormley goal sends title to Inchicore

Grown men do cry; unashamedly so, if the red blood of St Patrick's Athletic flows through your veins! Pat Dolan, mobbed and smothered…

Sat May 02 1998 - 01:00
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