Rising star Dunbar recovers well to keep battling Daly at bay

KEEPING Rathmore golfers out of the news these days is far from being an easy task.

Fast on the heels of Graeme McDowell’s magnificent exploits at Pebble Beach on Sunday came an outstanding performance from another Rathmore man, Alan Dunbar, in yesterday’s opening two matchplay rounds of the Golfsure Irish Close Championship at Royal Dublin.

Twenty year-old Dunbar has emerged as one of the most promising golfers in the country over the past three years. Having won the highly prestigious St Andrews Links Trophy in 2009, he further enhanced his prospects of a Walker Cup debut with a superb win in the AIB Irish Amateur Open, also at Royal Dublin.