"That rare touch and warmth" - a revealing tribute to the man Christy O'Connor Junior was

Tributes to the late Christy O'Connor Junior have gushed from the great and the good in the wake of his untimely death on Wednesday.

But few are as revealing and insightful about his genial personality than this one - from the Irish developer and his business partner who commissioned O'Connor to design a golf course bearing his name at the Amendoeira Golf Resort in the Algarve.

Too often golfers put their name and little else into a course development. Not so Christy O'Connor Junior, as Drogheda man, Gerry Fagan - the co-founder of Oceanico Developments in Portugal with partner Simon Burgess - revealed Thursday.