He might have had just five hours sleep and suffered an attack of nerves on the back nine, but no-one could deny that Greystones’ Paul Dunne deserved his one-shot victory in the East of Ireland Amateur Open at sun-splashed County Louth.

Graeme McDowell already has a dream pairing in his mind for tomorrow’s final round of the Open Championship – but it is with former college rival Brandt Snedeker and not Tiger Woods.

Seamus Power continued his remarkable start to life in American collegiate golf with victory in the prestigious Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate tournament in Alabama this week.