Trainor steals it with late charge

A DOUBLE eagle blast on the back nine shot Barrie Trainor to the top of the leaderboard at Malahide in the north Dublin club’s annual pro-am tournament.

Trainor posted a superb six-under-64 score to go two strokes ahead of Damian Mooney with David Higgins, current leader of the Lexus Race to Mount Juliet, and John Kelly sharing third place, a further two strokes back.

Birdie threes at the second and fourth holes set the former Warrenpoint Senior Cup player on his way before two further birdies and two bogeys left him out in two-under-par 32.