Irish Open 2022

The 67th Irish Open, sponsored in 2022 by Horizon, got ...

Mount Juliet Estate is hosting the Horizon Irish Open for the second successive year, with the championship having been played in front of limited-capacity crowds in 2021. Shane Lowry won the Irish Open as an amateur in 2009 while for US Senior Open champion Pádraig Harrington it will be his first tournament since claiming his first Senior major title last weekend. For Power, it will his first appearance in his national Open since 2019, and his first since winning a maiden PGA TOUR title at last year’s Barbasol Championship.

As the 2022 Horizon Irish Open gets underway this week, Fáilte Ireland is using its sponsorship of the event to highlight the importance of golf tourism to ...

Speaking on the importance of golf tourism to Ireland, Head of Commercial Development at Fáilte Ireland Paul Mockler said, "With Ireland's world-class golf product, experienced Irish based golf buyers and a motivated, capable industry, we believe that golf tourism will play an important part in supporting tourism to rebound quickly. According to Fáilte Ireland research, a golf visitor typically spends three times more than the average leisure tourist with most of the spend going directly into local economies on non-golf expenditure such as accommodation, transport and food and beverage. In 2019, Ireland welcomed over 221,000 visitors whose primary purpose of travel was a golf holiday, and they spent €300 million in the local economy.

Tournament favourite Shane Lowry had to settle for a 71 after a round that started badly with a tee shot pulled left into a fairway bunker at the tenth, ...

All told, 26 players managed to break 70 on the par-72 course in front of a sold-out first day. A bit frustrating on five and eight with a couple of bizarre bogeys but aside from that it was pretty sharp.” Tournament favourite Shane Lowry had to settle for a 71 after a round that started badly with a tee shot pulled left into a fairway bunker at the tenth, his first hole, and he will need to make a sizeable dent in the scorecard tomorrow.

Seamus Power and Niall Kearney are best of the home contingent's early starters in the opening round of the Horizon Irish Open after carding 68s.

Watch the Horizon Irish Open live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player on Thursday and Friday from 1pm-6pm. The Dubliner managed five birdies by the turn, including three-in-succession on 13, 14 and 15. He did have another bogey on the penultimate hole of the round but it was sandwiched by birdies on seven and nine.

Séamus Power might be a PGA TOUR winner and a contender in Major Championships these days but when it comes to boyhood dreams, it doesn't come much bigger for ...

Agency says golf tourism was driver of industry recovery after last recession and is seeing strong business this year.

It noted that golf tourism was one of the first sectors to rebound after the last recession. “Vitally, the spread of golf courses around the country offers a significant opportunity to drive tourism growth to all regions of Ireland and supports an extension of the tourism season.” That, he said, looks set to continue into 2023.

Here's who's playing and when on day 2 of this year's Horizon Irish Open at Mount Juliet with Padraig Harrington out early.

David Higgins is off at 2.10 with John Murphy last of the Irish to tee off at 2.30pm. Padraig Harrington is the first of the Irish out on Friday. Having had the late start on Thursday, Harrington joins Thomas Pieters and 2021 champion Lucas Herbert on the 10th tee at 8am. They’re best-placed after day one in a tie for 23rd.

The Irish Open continues today after a very enjoyable first round on Thursday. 2019 Open champion Shane Lowry is the biggest name in an impressive field.

Viewers in Ireland can tune into RTE Two at 1 pm until 6 pm and can stream it on the RTE Player here. Sky Sports will have coverage at the same time and you can also stream through Sky Go or Now TV. The tournament will be shown live on both RTE and Sky Sports.

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Fox fired eight birdies, including seven in his last 11 holes, to card a flawless opening 64 at Mount Juliet and enjoy a one-shot lead over Frederic Lacroix, ...

"The putt at the last makes you feel better after a couple of sloppy mistakes coming up to that, but overall very pleased." Get up in the morning and hopefully go low." It's just a part of the game, isn't it? And I think that's the sign of a good golf course. "I feel really comfortable with where my game's at, which probably hasn't happened for a few years out here now, and it's obviously a recipe for success. "After six holes I felt like two under would have been a great score.