Irish Golfer Magazine

3 days ago | irishgolfer.ie | Mark McGowan

Reigning Irish PGA Championship winner Niall Kearney has secured his first win of the 2025 Irish Region campaign at the Beaverstown 40th Anniversary Pro-Am.Playing in the afternoon wave, Kearney hunted down the early pace setter, Richard O’Donovan and Simon Thornton and Richard Kilpatrick, who’d drawn level with O’Donovan from the afternoon starters, and eventually overtook them with an eagle on the fifth – his 14th – to take a lead that he’d never surrender.

3 days ago | irishgolfer.ie | Mark McGowan

If Rory McIlroy believes in omens, then he’ll be happy with the early signs at Quail Hollow where the cream of golfing world are assembling for the US PGA Championship. Just over a month ago, early thunderstorms forced Augusta National to close the gates to patrons who had tickets for Monday’s practice round and the PGA of America have just been forced to do the same at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina.

3 days ago | irishgolfer.ie | Mark McGowan

Shane Lowry cast a distraught figure as he swept in a two-foot bogey putt on the 72nd hole of the PGA Tour’s Truist Championship. He knew he’d just made Sepp Straka’s task a simple one and wasn’t thinking of the financial implications, but they were there nonetheless. By bogeying the final hole, Lowry fell into a two-way tie for second alongside Justin Thomas and lost $400,000 in the process.

4 days ago | irishgolfer.ie | Mark McGowan

When Adilson da Silva stood on the eighth tee at Seapoint in the final round of the 2024 OFX Irish Legends, he was six shots back and couldn’t buy a putt for love nor money. 14 holes later – including three playoff holes – he was sinking a birdie putt for victory. You could say the odds weren’t in his favour when he’d seven played, but then again, the odds have been stacked against him his entire career.

4 days ago | irishgolfer.ie | Mark McGowan

Rory McIlroy was not at his best in Philadelphia, but for the world number two it was more a case of gauging where his game was at and what specifically he needed to work on in the days leading up to the second major of the year this week. “I sort of struggled with this in Houston as well,” he said after his radar was slightly off with his driver, “whenever we get these big, wide, open golf courses where there’s not a ton of definition.