Golf club drive keeps youths on right course

THE director of a major US organisation which helps keep young people out of trouble will visit Limerick this week to see how a local golf club is working to keep boys and girls off the streets.

Joe Barrow, son of boxing legend Joe Louis, heads a golf movement in the US called The First Tee which helps keep young people on the straight and narrow through golf.

Rathbane municipal golf course, which opened in 1998, has been operating a successful summer camp aimed at the eight to 15 years age group.