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Ireland finally produced their best golf in the European Team Championship week, winning their final matches in all four tournaments.

Ireland suffered an inexplicable singles collapse at Silkeborg in Denmark yesterday to crash out of contention for the European Men’s Amateur Team Championship.

Irishman Adrian Morrow, a member at Portmarnock Golf Club, won the silver medal which goes to the leading amateur who completes four rounds of the Senior British Open Championship.