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Coming to you live from Royal Troon, Peter and Ronan dissect what has been a brilliant two days for Shane Lowry who leads the Open Championship heading into the weekend. On the other end of the scale it's been a disastrous Open for Rory McIlroy and some extremely difficult conditions has made some big names look rather silly.

On this special edition of the podcast, Maynooth's Paddy Harrington Golf Scholarship director Barry Fennelly dropped into studio to preview this week's Arnold Palmer Cup in Lahinch. Fennelly is the International Head Coach as they take on the USA and he talks about what it means, the Irish interest and what the competition means to him.

On this week's edition of the podcast we discuss the continuing rise of 21-year-old Holywood sensation Tom McKibbin who qualified for the Open Championship in Royal Troon and cracked the top-100 in the world for the first time. A terrific Women's Amateur Championship was played at Portmarnock Golf Club with many of the Irish amateurs hoping that they can emulate what Lauren Walsh has done in recent weeks as she finished third at the Swiss Open, narrowly missing out on a maiden LET win.

On this week's edition of the podcast we discuss a disappointing showing from the Irish at the Amateur Championship in Ballyliffin and the prospect of an Irish win in Portmarnock at the Women's Amateur Championship this week.

Tom McKibbin's fine run of form continued with a top-6 finish at the KLM Open while there was drama in more ways than one at the Travelers Championship but it didn't stop Scottie Scheffler from rolling to another victory + Padraig Harrington's eighth Champions Tour victory

On this edition of the podcast, Sara Byrne dropped by to chat to Ronan about the Women's Amateur Championship this week a glorious final year in Miami and how she plans to bow out of amateur golf with a golden summer before entering the professional ranks.

On this week's sombre edition of the podcast, there's only one place to start after what happened on Sunday night. Why did McIlroy lose the US Open and where does he go from here? Box office Bryson is the real deal on the course and in the galleries. Anna Foster is the Irish women's champion as a glorious month of amateur golf in Ireland begins in Woodbrook and Ballyliffin.