The HORIZON Irish Open

Owgr prediction is 28 points for winner. 6 million prize fund for that is awful

I wonder how much JP is splashing out for his Pro-Am.

Looks like Kinsale's John Murphy has been given Sharvin's invite, ahead of McKibbin and Dunne who are both still in the Challenge Tour field for Italy and may or may not have asked for one. Big day tomorrow for a lot of Irish players chasing a qualifying spot for St Andrews. Any more details on Alex Maguire? He's the 4th highest ranked Irish amateur in the World List, behind Mark Power, Rob Moran and Matthew McClean so strange he hasn't made a six man Ireland team

Alex Maguire playing alongside former winner Sandy Lyle and Marcus Armitage over 36 holes in final qualifying at St Anne's Old Links tomorrow

No worries but it was the other comment I was replying to!

Padraig out with defending champion and leading player on race to dubai rankings playing.

Seems a decent pairing.

Seamus might need to block out some swearing with Shane and Hatton

Don't think the field is as bad as some are making out, sure we'd love some more big names especially with the increased prize money. However, there plenty of talent in that field and I'm sure we'll see a worthy winner.

Going on the Sunday and be happy to see any of Shane, Harro, Seamus, Pieters, Hatton, Rai, the Hojgaard twins, Bob or a few others lift the trophy

My advice would be to dress like you're playing golf yourself, golf shoes, warm clothes, rain jacket if required. Course guide if you can get one as it's handy to figure out where you are. Little rucksacks can be handy but that's about it, your phone so you can figure out who's winning 😏 and take a few snaps.

Mullarney got through in the end, tied 2nd

No live coverage until 1pm on first 2 rounds

Same question for me coming from Carrick-On-Suir side. Is it just a case of keep driving towards Mount Juliet directly until you reach the signs?

How does Park and Ride work?

With Paddy Power in such good form and Lowry always capable I personally don't really care who else is in the field.

Hopefully one or all of the lads can be in contention come the back 9 Sunday. If that's the case it'll be a great Irish Open.

Not sure what the directions will be but if you can I think get off the M9 at junction 9 and head towards Stoneyford. You take a left at the school there and that's the road that gets you to Mount Juliet, how far you'll get along there I'm not sure but that's the quickest way to get back to the motorway in the evening too, going through Thomastown will be slower and take you longer to get back to the M9. The school is top left corner of this image;

This is the field where everyone was parked last year, that icon for hunters yard is the Main entrance which you can't get near. If you can I'd see if you can get down as far as that car park but it sounds like they won't be letting people get that close this year. It might be that you'll only be allowed as far as Stoneyford and it'll be P & R from there.