The memory of an inspirational teenager lured golfers to sun-splashed fairways in Killarney, Co Kerry, yesterday.

An age-old rowing tradition on the famous Lakes of Killarney will be celebrated with a visit, this summer, by crews from famed universities Oxford and Cambridge.

A group of 21 workers are heading to the Labour Court today to try to save their jobs at Killarney Golf Club in Co Kerry.

Workers at Killarney Golf Club are to go on strike from May 7 over company plans to make 21 of the 41 staff redundant. The employees overwhelming voted in favour of the action.

WITH the Irish Open set for Portrush in June, it will be fascinating to see if Darren Clarke, Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy can attract the quality of field that has been so conspicuously absent for much of the last decade.

JACK O’CONNOR is standing with his selectors, hands burrowed into his wet suit pockets.

PORTMARNOCK professional Noel Fox was the last player into the Irish Open 2011 field yesterday after he received the eighth and final invitation to compete at Killarney from the European Tour.

THIRTY three years later it remains one of the country’s most convivial golf outings – so little wonder that numbers are up and they travel from all points of the globe for the annual Kenmare 3 Brothers Golf Classic.

ONE of the highest cut lines on the PGA Tour this season may have last night robbed tomorrow’s Munster football final in Killarney of a very special guest – golf’s world number one, Tiger Woods.

GOLF’s Irish Open could be poised for a return to Killarney Golf Club, it is understood. Negotiations between mobile phone company and Open sponsors 3, the European Tour and four potential venues for next year’s Open are underway with a new date around the August bank holiday weekend on the table.

Donal Hickey on the role of trees in Irish history.

THE DONALD Steel-designed Lackabane course at Killarney hosts the first European Challenge Tour event in the Republic of Ireland over the next four days with the arrival of the Ireland Ryder Cup Challenge.

Six players have been selected by the Golfing Union of Ireland to compete in the European Individual Championship at Antwerp International Golf Club, Belgium, from August 17 to 20.