How Dubliner Lorcan Morris bagged his dream job

'I remember thinking, it doesn’t matter if I don’t play golf, I can caddy, I just want to be inside the ropes doing this'

Lorcan Morris: I remember thinking, it doesn’t matter if I don’t play golf, I can caddy, I just want to be inside the ropes doing this'

Lorcan Morris was only seven or eight when he watched Ian Woosnam win the 1989 Carroll’s Irish Open at Portmarnock, close to his family home in north Dublin, but two things stood out.

Firstly, seeing Philip Walton, a fellow Dubliner, take world number six Woosnam to a play-off suggested that he too could grow up to compete at the very top level. If Walton could do it...