Moynihan shows mettle

Malahide teenager Gavin Moynihan joined major winners Padraig Harrington and Louis Oosthuizen on the roll of champions when he produced a brilliant short game display and defied near gale force winds to clinch the Irish Amateur Open in dramatic fashion at Royal Dublin.

The 17-year old boys’ international from The Island closed with rounds of 76 and 75 to win by a stroke from 20-year-old Dutchman Robin Kind on seven over par 295.

And he did it in style, firing a 198-yard three wood into the teeth of the wind to five feet at the 17th to set up a championship winning birdie.