Ireland scored a decisive 7 ½ - 1 ½ victory over Wales in their annual Youths International match at Royal Tara Golf Club.

GARY WOLSTENHOLME, the only Britain and Ireland amateur to feature on four winning Walker Cup teams, has been named in a provisional 29-strong squad for next August’s defence of the trophy in Chicago.

R&A selection chairman Peter McEvoy has named an initial squad of 29 players for next August's 40th Walker Cup, to be held at the Chicago Golf Club, Illinois.

THE Irish challenge in the British Boys’ Open Amateur Championship over the sundrenched Royal Liverpool links at Hoylake petered out disappointingly yesterday, as the last three survivors from the country fell by the wayside in the fourth round.