Details have yet to be confirmed but we understand that they days when the PGA professionals from the Irish Region got a set number of spots in the Irish Open may be at an end.

The PGA has refused to discuss the fallout in the Irish Region over the change in the status of those in the Tournament Player category.

Feelings are running high amongst the members of the PGA Irish Region after their internal regulations on the running of the Irish Order of Merit were quashed unilaterally by the PGA at The Belfry.