Mullarney four shots clear after course-record 62

Galway’s Ronan Mullarney will take a healthy four-shot lead into today’s second round at the Flogas Irish Amateur Open Championship after setting the pace with a course-record and career-low 62 in Sligo.

It was the ideal start for the Maynooth University Paddy Harrington scholar, already in pole position to become the first Connacht winner of the national championship since Rosses Point’s Cecil Ewing won the coveted title at Portmarnock in 1951.