AIG Cups and Shields: Monkstown bid for first title against ‘quality’ Sligo outfit

Munster champions Monkstown will be happy to play the underdog role as the race for Irish club golf’s blue riband, the AIG Senior Cup, goes down to the last four this morning at Carton House in Kildare.

Monkstown are the only one of the four provincial pennant winners not to have won the national title and in semi-final opponents Co. Sligo they face perhaps the most successful Senior Cup outfit in recent years.

The Rosses Point club’s four Senior Cups have come in 1996, 97, 2007 and most recently in 2013 when their title defence fell just one tie short with a final defeat the following year.