Kehoe keeps cool in Major leagues

IT WASN’T easy to look star struck at Carnoustie yesterday as a miserable, unrelenting mist — or haar as the Scots like to call it — swept over the great old course from the nearby North Sea.

Kehoe keeps cool in Major leagues

But a 27-year-old from Shinrone, Co Offaly by the name of Justin Kehoe hardly seemed to notice.

Here he was, against his wildest expectations, preparing to compete in the 136th Open Championship alongside his many heroes like, Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk and innumerable others, and relishing every moment.

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