Kearney the man to beat at Roganstown

PGA CHAMPIONSHIP: Niall Kearney has slipped snugly into the favourites’ seat for the Cassidy Golf PGA Irish Region Championship title this week, at Roganstown.

His string of recent successes has greatly shortened his odds of taking the national title for the first time. The Royal Dublin attaché clinched the HBE Risk Management Ulster Championship title at The Hilton Templepatrick, with a course record 65 on the way, a week after leapfrogging the overnight leaders at the two-day Connemara pro-am event.

Kearney also cleared the first hurdle, in Germany, at the European Tour Qualifying School and, at home, he also won the charity tournament at St Margaret’s.