Will snaps up Fota opportunity

RIGHT, here’s the deal: take a high-handicapper — a hacker, a novice — and in a matter of weeks, on a strictly part-time basis, turn him into a golfer.

That was the challenge taken on in September by Jamie O’Sullivan and Brian Kelleher, the two young teaching pros at the new Fota Island Golf Academy. Their victim? William Morrissey, a strapping young hurler from Waterfall, a guy who already had a good eye for a ball, but a guy also who brought all his hurling tendencies — including his grip and his sideline-taking style — on to the golf-course with him.

On day one, out at this state-of-the-art new Academy, I saw first-hand Will’s existing “style” — if it could be labelled as such — and thought: Lads, do ye have any idea what ye’re after taking on here?