In 2007 on this very turf, Rory McIlroy burst onto the scene at the Walker Cup, two years later Shane Lowry won the Irish Open as an amateur in Baltray. On Thursday 17-year-old Roganstown amateur Seán Keeling gave a glimpse of what might be possible. As darkness fell, Keeling provided the bright spark that the Irish performance at Royal County Down needed when after seventeen successive pars, he rolled in from 15-feet for a closing birdie on 18 …
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