Rockmount to host Irish Open Club Challenge qualifier

Rockmount Golf Club will play host to the first qualifying event for this year's Dubai Duty Free Irish Open Club Challenge.
By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Mar 2016, 16:13 BST
Updated 22nd Mar 2016, 22:17 BST
Looking forward to the qualifying events are (l-r) K Club Lady Captain Angela Cirillo and Captain Tony Kelly, European Tour Championship Director Rory Colville and Dubai Duty Free Golf Ambassador Des Smyth.Looking forward to the qualifying events are (l-r) K Club Lady Captain Angela Cirillo and Captain Tony Kelly, European Tour Championship Director Rory Colville and Dubai Duty Free Golf Ambassador Des Smyth.
Looking forward to the qualifying events are (l-r) K Club Lady Captain Angela Cirillo and Captain Tony Kelly, European Tour Championship Director Rory Colville and Dubai Duty Free Golf Ambassador Des Smyth.

More than 160 golf clubs across Ireland are competing with the chance to play alongside international golf superstars and world famous celebrities in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open Pro–Am at stake.

Forty teams will compete at Rockmount on Monday, April 11, with just five going on to a place in the finals

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The theme for this year’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, hosted by the Rory Foundation at The K Club (May 19-22) is ‘History in the Making’ and that will certainly be the case on May 18 when, for the first time ever, one lucky club team lines up to play alongside a top golfer in the prestigious Pro-Am competition.

The European Tour and Irish Open title-sponsor Dubai Duty Free, which has kindly donated one of its own Pro-Am team spaces for the competition, has revealed the all important details of the venues and dates for the five ‘Club Challenge’ regional qualifiers as well as the names of the 166 clubs who will be represented.

The qualifiers will all take place between Monday, April 11, and Monday, April 25, at five of Ireland’s top golf courses.

In addition to Rockmount there will be qualifiers at Powerscourt GC in County Wicklow, Hollystown GC in Dublin, Dooks GC in County Kerry and Galway Bay Golf Club, all of whom have donated their facilities in support of this year’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.

The Dubai Duty Free Irish Open Club Challenge is one of the key elements of Rory McIlroy’s ‘five point plan’ to encourage golf clubs to help make this year’s Irish Open one of the best yet.

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