The fuller than full house made the whole thing worse. More than three hundred guests were gathered in a massive dining room in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, at lunchtime last Friday, for the inaugural Women of Concern awards.

RICH BEEM’S PGA Championship victory on the major’s last visit to Hazeltine National in 2002 may still seem unlikely, given his singular lack of success since, but the Beemer’s performance that week in Minnesota was definitely no fluke.