Inside Golf: Mount Wolseley’s winning ways

Like the 46A bus to Dun Laoghaire, which would take an age to come and then arrive with another stuck to its exhaust pipe, there are signs that things are about to start moving apace in Irish golf.

At least, that’s what we sense from yesterday’s official confirmation that Tetrarch Capital’s Mount Wolseley Hotel Spa and Golf Resort in Carlow will host the first European Challenge Tour event in the Republic of Ireland in six years from October 8–11.

Thanks to the owners of Mount Wolseley, and more importantly Mount Juliet in Co Kilkenny, the efforts of the Confederation of Golf in Ireland and the Irish Sports Council have borne fruit and the “Irish Challenge hosted by Mount Wolseley Hotel Spa and Golf Resort” will be staged at the Christy O’Connor Jnr designed venue for the next three years.