Phelan to employ Merion tactics in Carton effort

Waterford Castle amateur Kevin Phelan is ready to give a US Open encore in this week’s Irish Open in Kildare.

Having produced a sensational performance to make the cut at Merion, the Florida-based 22-year old is hoping the sensible, no-nonsense approach that paid dividends in Philadelphia will work again at Carton House as well as in next week’s local final qualifying for the British Open at Muirfield.

Joined in the field by Welsh amateur Rhys Pugh and Irish team-mates Gavin Moynihan and Reeve Whitson, Phelan said: “I am going to just do the same thing I did at Merion and hit one shot at a time and see where it takes me.”