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Eddie McCormack claimed his first Irish Senior Men’s Amateur Close Championship in emphatic style at Nenagh Golf Club on Friday afternoon, August 15, twenty years after losing the final of the Irish Men’s Amateur Close Championship to a young Rory McIlroy.

If your idea of golfing heaven includes the roar of the Atlantic Ocean, windswept coastal cliffs, and fairways that rise and fall with nature’s rhythm, then look no further than Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way. With Rory McIlroy’s recent triumph at the Masters sparking fresh interest in Irish golf, and the return of The Open to the island this summer, this storied stretch of coastline is enjoying a moment in the global spotlight — and rightly so.

Rory McIlroy’s nail-biting victory at the US Masters last month will long be remembered as one of golf’s most thrilling finishes. For those lucky enough to witness it live in Augusta, the roars, the drama, and the sheer poetry of McIlroy’s triumph were unforgettable. But for those of us not fortunate enough to be there in person, we found the next best thing — and arguably, the most enjoyable alternative imaginable — in the heart of Connemara, at Keogh’s Bar and Restaurant in Ballyconneely.

Ireland is celebrating the recent success of Masters winner Rory McIlroy, and none more so than the golfers in Oughterard.

County Galway’s Oughterard Golf Club grabbed the limelight last weekend when hosting the finals of the prestigious Flogas Irish Mixed Foursomes and Irish Fourball competitions. In celebration of the club’s 50th anniversary year, the All Ireland series, involving some 232 clubs and 140 teams representing the four provinces, concluded in Oughterard.

Normally, the world inhabited by professional golfers would not enter the concerns of mere mortals. From the outside, it seems idyllic; Travel, exercise, competition, excellence, the feeling of representing yourself in the best light, and your country or continent whenever the need arises. No matter what side of the fence you are on with this, we are not trying to create sympathy for those who live such an elite life. And good luck to them, they work hard and deserve whatever success they have.

We lost Phelim Murphy on Friday June 10.

The 43rd Ryder Cup takes place this weekend, Friday to Sunday (September 24-26) at Whistling Straits, Wisconsin, USA.

It was around this time of year when we were kids that a vast array of nothingness spread ahead of us like a meadow with no walls. When schoolbags would be kicked into a corner for the summer, when evenings playing handball in the old ball alley would spread into days playing handball. When you would throw yourself back on the grass, stare at the heavens and wonder about things you had no notion of wondering about. Lying there watching the clouds move across the blue skies and wondering if it was the cloud that was moving or the earth beneath you.