Tiger’s trip to Adare tops treats for 2010

WITH Tiger Woods set to lead a stellar field in the 5th JP McManus Pro-Am at Adare Manor in early July and the 3 Irish Open coming back to Killarney a few weeks later, the summer months of 2010 promise everything golfers in the southern part of the country could wish for.

Woods will be just one of many superstars – and they won’t all be golfers by any means – competing in the McManus extravaganza that is set to raise many more millions for worthy charities in the mid-west. If it’s half as good as it was at Adare in 2005, the occasion will be something very special indeed and McManus and his committee are already concentrating their minds on ensuring that will be very much the case.

The Killeen Course at Killarney will today be confirmed as the venue for the 2010 Irish Open with all the indications that the host venue – enthusiastically supported by the business people of the town and its environs– will put on a very special show indeed. George O’Grady, chief executive of the European Tour, will make the announcement, along with the Sports Minister Martin Cullen, and must be one very relieved man.