It was a long time ago when I first visited Enniscrone. I was 13 and I played a links that Eddie Hackett designed in 1970. The course had been here since the 1930s but now holes slipped into the big dunes that divided the links from Killala Bay.

I’VE lived in the midlands for over 20 years now but once I spent a lot of time on the coast. This means that a return to the seaside is nostalgic and exciting.

A TALE of two rivers — despite a poor run of grilse to the Irish coast, the River Moy enjoyed its best week of the season with 626 salmon reported for last week bringing the season total, to date, to 3008, which is down 33% on last year catch.

NICK FALDO is a step nearer to achieving his dream of building “the best and most unique links golf course in the world” at Bartragh Island off the Mayo coast.