Peter Cowen’s coaching academy near Sheffield has been broken into 25 times including seven break-ins this year alone, but fortunately tapes of Graeme McDowell’s golf swing in 2010 remain secure.

Graeme McDowell wasn’t ringing any Open Championship alarm bells as he looks certain to drop outside the World’s Top 50 for a first time in more than five years after missing the halfway cut in the defence of his French Open title.

Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry left Chambers Bay tied for ninth at the US Open and sharing optimism for the summer’s golf ahead.

Is there a bigger turnip anywhere in Ireland today?

Rory McIlroy has been urged to try Castle Stuart for himself after it was confirmed the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open will return there in 2016.

Matthew Fitzpatrick did not get his wish to meet Tiger Woods during the 142nd Open Championship trophy ceremony, not that the Sheffield teenager failed to keep up his end of the bargain.

Waterville’s David Higgins was left ruing a bizarre mistake in a British Open Local Final qualifier at the North Berwick club after missing out in a play-off as he was carrying 15 clubs.

On the surface, you’d have to assume that Mike Davis has never stepped foot in the United Kingdom and had the pleasure of navigating a true links.

Ireland hope home advantage will help them regain the Boys Home International title at County Louth over the next three days.

This Gullane, Roscarbery farm, which hits the market this week, was the home of the late John Burns, a man who was well known in the Roscarbery/Glandore area of West Cork as a collector of vintage cars and tractors and a dealer in farm machinery.

INSPIRED by the exploits of Pádraig Harrington, Ireland won the Home International Championship when it was last staged at Rosses Point in 1991.

ALAN DUNBAR stepped up his bid for a place in the Walker Cup team to face the Americans at Aberdeen next month when he fired a splendid opening 68 — four under par — in the European Amateur Individual Championship in Sweden yesterday.

IRELAND made a winning start to the defence of their R&A Trophy in the Boys Home Internationals over the Royal and St David’s links at Harlech yesterday — but they were made to fight hard for victory over hosts Wales.

IT’S unusual for a big one-off to come with such a high BER rating, but this house at Gullane, Clonakilty, tips into the A level in terms of sustainability.

GOVERNMENT job relocations to Clonakilty with the Department of the Marine might yet be a year or two off but that hasn’t stopped aspiring transferees from house hunting early in west Cork.

SAM TORRANCE made his tee-off time with 10 seconds to spare by ‘‘doing a Colin Jackson’’ and leaping over a fence at the Celtic Manor Wales Open.

FIVE Irish golfers have made it through to final qualifying for next week's British Open at Muirfield.