Debutant Mark Power firmly in the mix alongside Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy at Irish Open as India’s Shubhankar Sharma's 65 sets the early pace
A bogey-free round of seven-under-par 65 gave Sharma a one shot lead over a quintet of players, featuring 52-year-old Dane Thomas Bjorn, the English pair of Ross Fisher and Jordan Smith, Norway’s Kristian Johannessen and Germany’s Marcel Schneider.
So, Power’s brave new journey away from cosseted life as an amateur started with a 68, four-under, that put him alongside Lowry in leading the Irish challenge in tied-13th after day one, with McIlroy a shot back in tied-26th after a 69. This is new territory for Power, even if past invites – at Mount Juliet – as an amateur had paved the way.
“I came here, I’ve got no feelings for the game, and it just shows how silly [it] can be. You can work hard for weeks and go out and shoot bad scores. Expectations sometimes get in the way of professional golf, as I’ve known, and then you just go out and enjoy yourself, you’re just happy to be on the golf course after so long,” said Bjorn.
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