Invite for Fox, no place for Sugrue

PORTMARNOCK professional Noel Fox was the last player into the Irish Open 2011 field yesterday after he received the eighth and final invitation to compete at Killarney from the European Tour.

Fox’s inclusion alongside Niall Kearney, Colm Moriarty, Gary Murphy, Mark Murphy and Simon Thornton means there will be six Irish invitees this week as well as American amateur Scott Pinckney and Sweden’s Rikard Karlberg.

It also means disappointment for Killarney’s own professional Daniel Sugrue, who played in last year’s event but was determined to look on the positive side of his omission this time around.