Rebecca Codd still loves life on tour

Call it addiction or obsession but the desire of a professional golfer to remain on tour even when there are a million reasons not to be there goes beyond all logic.

Just ask Rebecca Codd (née Coakley), the Irish tour pro who’s been battling to make the grade on the Ladies European Tour for the best part of 11 years.

With a two-year-old daughter at home and her husband Shane away caddying for a Colombian on the LPGA Tour, it’s a hugely difficult balancing act for the 34-year old Carlow native, who sometimes takes little Kate out on the circuit.