Legends like Harry Bradshaw, Fred Daly, Christy O’Connor Senior, Paul McGinley, Darren Clarke and Pádraig Harrington have won the Irish PGA Championship over its 104-year history.

Hazel Kavanagh (Carr Golf Services) produced a late birdie blitz to claim an historic victory at the PGA Irish Club Professional Tournament in association with The Down Syndrome Centre at Arklow GC.

IRELAND’s golf industry isin need of an umbrella body to look after its interests and help prevent further pain in the current tough economic climate, according to the organiser of last week’s first Irish golf business conference.

GOLF in Ireland received a welcome boost last night with the news that the Irish Open remains on the 2011 European Tour schedule.

THEY spring up like mushrooms in the boom years but delegates at a high-powered seminar today won’t be surprised to hear that the country’s golf clubs are now under-utilised by up to 30%.