Favourite Smyth delighted to be back on home soil

Charlie Mulqueen, The Heritage

Smyth makes his first appearance in his native championship on the back of a 6th place finish in last week’s US PGA Championship and two wins on the US Champions Tour (the SBC Classic and the Legends of Golf) and currently lies third on the order of merit with the sum of $786,911.

He would loved to have played the Irish Open in the past two years having turned 50 in February 2003, but was too busy concentrating on establishing himself in the United States.