‘What you have here is parkland perfection’

Four of Ireland’s most distinguished professional golfers lined up at Adare Manor, Co Limerick, yesterday in tribute to the contribution five JP McManus pro-am events have made to charitable interests throughout the mid-west.

Pádraig Harrington, who won an Irish Open at the ‘old’ Adare in 2007, has been responsible for many of the refurbishments that have propelled this already magnificent parkland course into the list of top courses in the world. The pro-am will take place for the sixth time in July 2020 and the unrivalled condition of the course on the banks of the River Maigue has drawn huge compliments.

“Shane (Lowry) and myself were always talking about how we’d love to play on a course in as good condition as those on tour.