A New Dawn for Professional Golf

Roddy Carr 2024 Article

In December 2022, I wrote: “Enter LIV Golf this year: I have heard it described as the biggest ‘disrupter’ and ‘fracturing’ of professional golf in its history. Wives and families are no longer talking, fellow Ryder Cup teammates are no longer friends and the rhetoric at the top is toxic. It is not a healthy […]

A Daydream Day in Donegal

Roddy Carr Rosses Point Golf Club

I was changing in the locker room after play and a fellow golfer was singing that happy song ‘What a Day for a Daydream’ to himself. It kind of summed up the feeling of the day for all those invited to play in Paul McGinley’s recent press day at Donegal Golf Club. I arrived the […]

Roddy Carr looks back on the golden age of The Irish Open

Roddy Carr Previews The Irish Open

Today’s generation will not have the fond memories of many older golfers in this country, who remember making the annual pilgrimage to what was recognized, outside of GAA events, as the biggest sporting event of the year in Ireland. The golden years of the Irish Open were 1975 to 1995. When the world’s greatest names […]