A leading golf club, which has been plagued by division and internal power struggles, last night heard a plea for unity from its newly elected captain.

A long-standing tradition in golf whereby the vice-captain of a club becomes captain for the following year, unopposed, is due to be set aside by one of the country’s leading clubs.

Members of a top golf club hit by a cash-flow crisis have been told “very deep and significant change” is needed to ensure its survival.

Members of Killarney Golf and Fishing Club are to be asked to greenlight the sale of the club’s third course to the neighbouring Liebherr company for over €6m.

Killarney Golf and Fishing Club is negotiating the potential sale of one of its three championship courses to German crane manufacturing giant Liebherr.

ALTHOUGH the loss of the event would come as a considerable blow to local tourism interests, financial controllers at Killarney Golf andFishing Club are likely to take some consolation from the fact that the lakeshore facility stands to save up to €100,000 if the 2012 Irish Open is switched from Kerry to a Dublin venue.

SPORTING legends spanning many codes were in Killarney yesterday for the funeral Mass of popular businessman and sportsman Denis Coffey who died suddenly at the weekend.

THE picture comes easily to Maurice O’Meara.

MAURICE O’MEARA, named manager of the year at the Irish Golf Tour Operators Association (IGTOA) annual awards, is confident the ‘3’ Irish Open will return to Killarney next year.

THE 3 Irish Open hosts can be well pleased with their efforts.

KILLARNEY, which has just successfully hosted the 3 Irish Open golf championship, may be the venue again next year.

BRITISH ambassador Julian King yesterday remained ‘mum’ about the Queen’s likely visit to Ireland.

LADIES GOLF is set to get a boost in the Munster area with the appointment of Kelly Brotherton as trainee assistant professional in the Killarney Golf and Fishing Club.

Some 75,000 golf fans are set to give Kerry a €30m tourism boost next year, business chiefs said today.

The 3 Irish Open will take place next year at the Killarney Golf and Fishing Club from July 29 to August 1, it was announced today.

IF all goes according to script the annual report of the Anglo Irish Bank will be published this afternoon. If it is anything like as incendiary as we have been led to expect, it might be a good idea to anticipate a few days of high dudgeon and outraged commentary.

A ROW has flared over plans by a top golf club to cut down old lime trees which date to the mid-1800s.