Royal County Down fells the best and the brightest

You would be forgiven for not recognising many of the players on top of the leaderboard going into the Irish Open final round yesterday.

Names like Kjeldsen, Cabrera-Bello, Kieffer, Hatton and Ramsey would not have featured prominently in the pre-tournament promotion of a star-studded field.

However, after three rounds of hard graft, they all deserved special mention.