I’m taking up golf. There is no more palatable way of saying it.

She always thought of golf clubs as a place for the boys. So when the team behind the Irish Open offered Ciara McDonnell a crash course, she accepted – to see if the boys’ club was no more.

RIGHT, here’s the deal: take a high-handicapper — a hacker, a novice — and in a matter of weeks, on a strictly part-time basis, turn him into a golfer.