James Sugrue: 'I don’t want to start off playing muck and put myself under pressure'

THE professional game beckons for James Sugrue after a stellar 2019, but the Mallow golfer will not rush into the paying ranks on anything but his own terms.

There is unfinished business as a gentleman golfer, for one. The 23-year-old is still enjoying the rewards of his victory at Portmarnock last summer when he won the coveted Amateur Championship at the end of a gruelling week’s play on the hallowed Dublin links.