Kehoe equals course record to take Irish to top of leaderboard

JUSTIN KEHOE was on fire in the European men’s amateur team championships over the Royal Hague course yesterday to take 2001 runners-up Ireland to the top of the leaderboard in the first qualifying round.

The 22-year-old Walker Cup hopeful from Birr produced a brilliant 66 six under par in tough conditions on this awesome links course to equal the course record set just four hours earlier by brilliant Spaniard Pablo Martin.

He got to the turn in 35 two under par and then canned a monster of a putt of around 70 feet at the 10th to move to three under.