Cormac Sharvin leads amateur stars’ charge

Cormac Sharvin will go into this week’s Irish Amateur Open Championship full of confidence after claiming a top-five finish at the prestigious Lytham Trophy over the weekend.

The Walker Cup hopeful, one of five Irishmen on the initial 20-man squad for this September’s matches between 10-player teams from Great Britain & Ireland and the United States, claimed fourth place at Royal Lytham & St Annes on the Lancashire coast behind runaway winner Marcus Kinholt of Sweden.

Like the rest of the cream of Irish amateur golf, Sharvin, of Ardglass Golf Club, now turns his attention to Royal Dublin and the Irish Amateur Open, which gets underway on Thursday. Sharvin finished joint runner-up a year ago and will be aiming to get the better of Scotland’s Jamie Savage this time around.