‘Fantastic field’ to attract record attendance

A RECORD crowd is expected at next week’s Irish Open in Killarney on the back of Darren Clarke’s and Rory McIlroy’s Major triumphs.

With Clarke claiming a stunning British Open success at Royal St George’s, following McIlroy’s superb US Open victory last month, the fact that two current Major champions will be competing in Killarney is expected to swell the crowd.

Killarney Golf Club general manager Maurice O’Meara believes that last year’s crowd numbers can be surpassed next week, when Clarke and McIlroy, as well as a host of other big names in golf, head to Kerry.