‘Borderline obscene’: Golf’s newest bomber has Irish Open in his sights

HEADING TO IRELAND: Wilco Nienaber follows the line of his shot from the seventh tee during US Open at Torrey Pines. The South African’s average driving distance this week at Torrey Pines was 346.8 yards, tops in the field and well ahead of the 305.7 field average. Picture: Ezra Shaw

Look out Ireland, Wilco Nienaber is coming.

Fresh off making the cut in his major championship debut at the US Open, golf’s newest long-driving savant from South Africa is heading next to the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at Mount Juliet Estate, Co Kilkenny. He hopes to finish high enough in Ireland or at the following week’s Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open to snag one of the three spots on offer at each to the Open Championship at Royal St George’s.