Cleary keeps Crowe, Cutler in his sights

Stay-at-home dad Tony Cleary proved the age of the part-time golfer is not quite as an end as he opened with a one under par 71 to keep the leaders in his sights in the first ever strokeplay edition of the Golfsure sponsored Irish Amateur Close Championship at windswept Shannon.

Married to a local lady, the 42-year old Dromoland player moved to the Shannon region from his native Kent a decade ago to take care of his two children and his ill father in law.

“My wife works and I look after the kids and play golf obviously,” said Cleary, who had four birdies and three birdies to share fourth place with Mourne’s Reeve Whitson.