Hugh Foley achieves his destiny with 10-shot Irish Close win

Royal Dublin’s Hugh Foley who won the AIG 2020 Irish Amateur Close Championship at Sandy Hills Links, Rosapenna GC, Co Donegal. Picture: Pat Cashman

Royal Dublin’s Hugh Foley became the first man from the Dollymount club to win the title for 99 years when he cruised to a ten-stroke victory in the AIG Irish Amateur Close Championship at Rosapenna.

A full-time amateur, the 23-year-old Dubliner felt it was “destiny” that he should etch his name on the trophy just 15 months after he was forced to pull out on the eve of the Close at Ballybunion when his father, cardiologist Prof David Foley, fell seriously ill.