Irish Golfer talks exclusively to Modest! Golf directors Niall Horan and Mark McDonnell to discuss their first Irish signings. It’s been over two years since Niall Horan was involved in setting up Modest! Golf with Mark McDonnell and Ian Watts. Whether you’re a fan of...
Ireland’s Anchor Man. It has a certain ring to it, but Colm Campbell’s roots remain firmly in South Down and Warrenpoint Golf Club. The club helped him to become the player he is today, and he has helped add more pennant-laden chapters to an already storied journey....
Damien McGrane’s not wrong when he tells me that he’s “one in a million”. After 12 years plying his trade on the European Tour, the Kells man returned to the PGA regional circuit in Ireland in 2015 and hasn’t looked back since. The winner of the China Open in 2008,...
Cast your mind back to late July, 2015. It was the month a then 22-year-old Irish amateur from Greystones announced himself to the world on the biggest stage of them all, The Open Championship, at the Home of Golf. Leading after 54 holes, Dunne may have...
It’s been a long season for David Higgins, and with the last of the competitive golf behind him, the Waterville native can look back on 2017 as another successful year. Starting with the Munster PGA in March, through a long PGA Irish Region season and finishing with...
In the current issue of Irish Golfer Magazine, front cover star Leona Maguire spoke to IGM about her life at Duke University, her recent British Amateur victory and of course what lies ahead for 2018 as she looks to turn pro. It feels like I’ve known Leona Maguire for...
First impressions might suggest Niall Horan is a young star enjoying the carefree, playboy lifestyle while taking time away from the day job. But that would be misleading. He has serious ambitions as he and the team at Modest! Golf just over one year in have already...
It’s hard to believe that it is a decade since Padraig Harrington’s Major breakthrough at Carnoustie. Harrington’s win was a watershed moment for European and Irish golf as the floodgates opened on the Major drought we’d had since the previous European major win, Paul...
The transition from the amateur to professional ranks seems to be the toughest task facing most elite amateurs leaving the comfort of the GUI nest in recent years. Those first few years are make or break and luck can play as much a part as hard work. In 2009 Shane...
Brendan McGovern is 51 going on 15. That's what a new lease of life does to you. He's relishing the opportunity to compete once more against the major champions of yesteryear, though he knows it won't be easy. These guys are all seasoned campaigners, tough to beat....
In February IGM's Paul Gallagher caught up with Padraig Harrington to chat about his 18-year association with Wilson Golf. If you haven't read it yet, you really should. Write the questions down, add the supplementaries and build the mind map to plot the journey for...
It's been a difficult road for the 25-year old in recent times but Meadow is geared for a big 2017. “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” – Oscar Wilde. Antrim’s Stephanie...
Peter Lawrie is settling in to his new role at Luttrellstown Castle and he has some big plans. One would’ve thought the quick spin from Castleknock to Luttrellstown would’ve been quite the cushy number for Peter Lawrie but throw four kids into the mix and his new...
Rory McIlroy has transformed his game and body since working with Steve McGregor. Less than five years ago Rory McIlroy could barely balance on one leg. His workout routine was limited to, as he put it, “not very much.” He simply didn’t have the muscle strength or...
Such has been the level of success displayed by Irish golfers this past decade that it’s easy to forget the magnitude of our global achievements. We’ve grown accustomed to the names of McIlroy, Harrington, McDowell et al occupying prime real estate on PGA Tour...
Shane Lowry has always been one of more affable top golfers to work with. He's always approachable, he's honest, he always wears his heart on his sleeve, he gives you a good line and he'll tell you sometimes when to 'go take a long walk on a short pier' if he's not...
Much like Bill Murray used to wake up at 6am in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania only to discover that it was GroundHog Day, morning after morning, I enter another major tournament as a tortured Rory McIlroy fan wondering if this Sunday will be the one where the 33-year old...
Scottie Scheffler is many people’s idea of this week’s US PGA Championship winner. The world number one and reigning Masters champion already boasts four individual wins this term ahead of a visit to Southern Hills, a course that happens to be one of his favourites....
It speaks volumes that Shane Lowry likens his strong form leading into this week's PGA Championship as pretty much the same as his form three years ago heading into the 2019 Open Championship. Lowry's record in the four individual men’s Majors reads impressively, with...
When Justin Thomas was asked if he felt he’s underachieved in golf’s Major championships prior to last month’s Masters, the forthright American answered, “I know I have”. The world number 8’s first and only Major victory arrived at the 2017 PGA Championship and...