McHenry steels himself for a second coming

FORMER Walker Cup star and European Tour regular John McHenry is all set to make his return to the big time having spent four years in virtual retirement.

McHenry is now heading up the new practice facility and forthcoming academy at The K-Club and, having demonstrated that his golf game is probably as good as ever, is about to receive invitations to compete in the forthcoming Smurfit European Open over his home course on July 3-6 and in the Nissan Irish Open at Portmarnock on July 23-27.

Cork-born McHenry is now in his 40th year and will be remembered as an amateur good enough to capture the Irish Close and South of Ireland Championships and a number of other major titles along with playing in the 1987 Walker Cup when his teammates included Colin Montgomerie. He turned professional later that year and enjoyed a degree of success on the European Tour without ever quite making the anticipated break through.