Noel Cronin Q&A: ‘Waterville is a great golf course, fair for everyone’

Kevin Markham chats with Noel Cronin, one of Irish golf’s great gentlemen.

There have always been great characters in Irish golf, whether on the tour, in the amateur game or in the clubhouses across the country.

Some set out to make the game their livelihood, while others find that their lives collide with the game. Noel Cronin, a Kerryman through and through, is one of the latter. At 73, he has lived in Waterville all of his life and, while his passion in his younger years was for cars, it is his past three decades of devotion to Waterville Golf Links that defines him.