Top Euro rookie Lawrie repays Golf Trust in style

DUBLINER Peter Lawrie, Ireland’s Rookie of the Year on the PGA European Tour, was feted along with other leading Irish professionals Gary Murphy and Damien McGrane in Dublin last evening.

The trio will be regulars on the European Tour in 2004 thanks to their outstanding achievements during the past 12 months, their respective causes considerably helped by the financial assistance they received from the Irish Golf Trust.

Pride of place on this occasion went to Lawrie, 29, for becoming the first Irishman to capture the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year title.