Galway’s Ronan Mullarney will take a healthy four-shot lead into today’s second round at the Flogas Irish Amateur Open Championship after setting the pace with a course-record and career-low 62 in Sligo. Today’s chasing pack has an international look to it with Scotland’s Euan Walker and Robbie Muir and England’s James Newton all in the hunt following opening five-under-par 66s. I forgot my battery leaving the house, and I plonked it in the bunker on the first,” Mullarney said. Mullarney is mindful of the difficulty in following up a strong opening round. And alongside them both is reigning AIG Irish Close champion Robbie Cannon, the 2013 Irish Amateur Open winner.

Source: Irish Examiner May 16, 2019 23:03 UTC