Should Killarney be a breeze or a battle?
There was hardly a puff of wind, the sun shone gloriously on the famous lakes and fellas (well, some, anyway!) made hay.
Afterwards, the message was almost entirely the same – if we can play the Killeen Course so comfortably, the game’s finest professionals will surely tear it apart in the championship itself on the August bank holiday weekend. Even devoted Killarney members expressed fears that their pride and joy could be turned into a pitch and putt course and there were many pleas to European Tour director David Probyn to lower the overall par from 72 to 70 by reducing the 7th and 11th to par fours.
