EXCLUSIVE: Former Mayo Taoiseach links up with ex-British PM to win golf open

Former Taoiseach Enda Kenny has teamed up with former British Prime Minister David Cameron and Padraig Harrington to win ISPS HANDA Pro-Am in Sunningdale, near London. 

The Islandeady man’s fourball beat a competitive field including singer Niall Horan and footballer Dwight Yorke by six shots. 

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Speaking exclusively to The Mayo News, the former Taoiseach remarked that “we won by more than Scottie Scheffler.”

He complimented the former British Prime Minister’s golf game, commenting that “he's taken it up now, though, pretty seriously, and he's quite good. It was good to meet him yesterday and have a chat about golf and about sport and about other things.”

David Cameron tweeted earlier that it was “Great to be reunited with my good friend Enda Kenny, Irish Taoiseach when I was PM. From the UK’s Sovereign loan to Ireland to The Queen’s historic visit, we encouraged many things to bring our two countries together. Yesterday, we were playing with the great Pádraig Harrington, who led us to our latest victory”

Former Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Former British Prime Minister David Cameron (Credit: David Cameron twitter)

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Enda Kenny is a patron of the The International Society for the Promotion of Sport, which hosted the event. The foundation deals with people with disabilities and challenges and supports golf for the blind, wheelchair basketball, the Invictus Games, which is for people who've been wounded in war and conflict. 

“Sport has a great capacity to inspire people to give them hope and couragement, and to unite a lot of differences of opinion and differences of view.”

Here in Ireland, he explained that the Handa group, which supports the ISPS, has negotiated a program with Golf Ireland for the promotion of disability within golf. 

“Oftentimes people feel they cannot do anything other than either sit in a wheelchair or just be home bound. Yet there are so many who can be inspired to get out there and do something else. And sport is a great way of unifying and giving courage to people to do that. And they feel so much better in their mental health by participating in these kinds of things.”