O’Sullivan a star on tour of legends

At 66 and with his sights firmly trained on a top 10 finish in this week’s British Seniors Open at Royal Porthcawl, Cork’s Denis O’Sullivan is focused.

It’s still remarkable that he forged a professional career on the Senior Tour, embracing the pro game at the age of 50 following a lifetime as an amateur.

It didn’t take O’Sullivan long to earn their total respect. In 2000, he enjoyed a marvellous double in the Seniors Tour of Champions and the Abu Dhabi Championship and further success followed a year later in the Palmerston Trophy in Berlin and the Scandinavian International, before visits to the winner’s enclosure continued in 2002 in Tunisia and in ’05 in Barbados.