Residence hope Tom McKibbin says he is anticipating “extraordinarily tough” situations on this week’s Irish Open at Royal County Down with wind forecast to rise up on the famed Newcastle hyperlinks.
McKibbin, 21, can also be going into this week’s occasion with a change of caddie having cut up with veteran bagman David McNeilly and now using the companies of relative rookie Ricky McCormick, a up to date of his from Holywood Golf Membership.
“Royal County Down is a really arduous golf course whenever you simply play it casually by no means thoughts if you find yourself in a event,” McKibbin instructed BBC Sport NI.
“The climate is supposed to be fairly breezy so it’s going to be a really tough check of golf. The one that wins it can definitely have performed the very best golf over the 4 days.”
As for his caddie change, McKibbin insists he’s going along with his “intestine feeling” that he wanted one thing “barely totally different” after a slight dip in kind which has seen him miss the minimize in three of his final 5 occasions.
McNeilly, whose purchasers up to now have included Sir Nick Faldo, Nick Value and Padraig Harrington, was on the bag for McKibbin’s first DP World Tour triumph on the European Open final yr and his largely constant kind this season.
“I like Dave to bits and Dave has been nice for me and I nonetheless love Dave. It’s simply that I wanted to vary one thing up a little bit bit.”
