Caolan Rafferty cool at Rosses Point Golf Championship 

Dundalk’s Caolan Rafferty claimed the bragging rights after the first round of strokeplay at the Radisson West of Ireland Golf Championship at a windswept Rosses Point yesterday.

Rafferty was the only player in the field of 120 to break par at County Sligo Golf Club, with his one-over 70 giving him the clubhouse lead heading into this morning’s second day of qualifying.

Two more players did manage to stay level par, Tiarnan McLarnon from Massereene in Antrim and Alex Gleeson – a former member at the host club, but now playing out of Castle in Dublin.