Jody Fanagan
Bobby Browne retires after 48 years at Laytown and Bettystown
Born in 1942, Bobby Browne grew up in the foothills of the Dublin mountains at Edmondstown and by the time he was ten years old, he was caddying regularly at the local club where characters such as Sydney Jackson, Maurice Cohen, Jackie Bloom and the pantomime baddie Vernon Hayden gave him regular employment.
Lowry survives joust with Fanagan
Just over a week after falling into an emotional embrace with his former Walker Cup partner Padraig Harrington at a post-Open Championship welcome home party, Milltown’s Jody Fanagan could only look on and smile as Ireland’s up-and-coming champion Shane Lowry sent him packing in the fourth round of the McNamara sponsored South of Ireland Championship at rain-sodden Lahinch.