Christy wants big drive for game in Ireland

Irish golf legend Christy O’Connor Jr. has made an emotional appeal to tourism chiefs to help promote the nations’ courses to foreign golfers.

O’Connor Jr., 64, enjoys a sterling reputation around the golfing world following his Ryder Cup heroics for Europe in 1989 and his back-to-back Senior British Open victories in 1999 and 2000. Now he aims to put that standing to good use to help bring much-needed green fees into Ireland.

“I would love to help with the job of doubling or tripling the amount of green-fee players coming to Ireland,” he said.