GUI chief backing Thurles Golf Club to come up trumps hosting AIG Cups and Shields finals

GUI President-elect John Moloughney is backing Thurles Golf Club to keep up the high standards of the AIG Cups and Shields finals when they are staged at the Tipperary club in 2018.

Former Munster president Moloughney will be Irish men’s golf’s figurehead in an illustrious year when he succeeds GUI president Peter Sinclair, with the governing body hosting the World Amateur Team Championships for men and women at Carton House next September.

In addition to the staging of the men’s Eisenhower and women’s Espiritu Santo trophies, Moloughney will also have the honour of the All Ireland inter-club finals taking place in his home parish of Moycarkey, Tipperary, where Thurles Golf Club is situated.