‘Funky’ Lahinch new challenge for the pros

If nothing else, this week’s visit to Lahinch will leave European Tour golfers with the feeling they have played some very different holes in Klondyke and Dell.

Quirky and funky have been a couple of the descriptions of the back-to-back blind tee shots facing this week’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open field at the iconic links’s fourth and fifth holes. Normally a par-five, Klondyke, with its huge dune standing between fairway and green, will this week play to a par of four before the par-three Dell hole presents a similarly difficult challenge.