Tom Brady’s whirlwind visit to Ireland last week included business talks, a pitstop at RTÉ studios and plenty of golf.
The seven-time Super Bowl champion experienced some of the greatest golf this island has to offer. He played rounds at Portrush – which will host the 2025 Open – plus Royal County Down, Portmarnock, Adare and Ballybunion. Along the way, he was joined by a number of VIPs including country musician Morgan Wallen – who missed the Academy Of Country Music Awards to hang with Brady – and well-known US sports broadcaster Jim Gray.
Interestingly, word of Brady’s golf prowess made it back to the presenters of the popular golf podcast No Laying Up.
Venerable co-presenter DJ Piehowski – who himself had recently played Portrush with fellow NLU presenter Chris Solomon – said that reputable sources had informed him that Brady had signed for an impressive 72 on his round at Portrush last week. (discussion starts here around the 1.40.00 mark)
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This is what the Pie Man had to say:
The quarterback TB12 Tom Brady is on a tour de force of Ireland and Northern Ireland right now. I have sources on the ground, guys- he was at Royal Portush, this is widely publicised – I have sources telling me he shot 72. I don’t know what tees he played, I don’t know if he’s holing everything out. I’m hearing he shot 72, which was not out there the day we played it Soly, but if TB12 racked up a 72 more power to him.
Portrush is a par-71 course so Brady – who reportedly plays off a handicap of 8 – would have been very pleased with that round. It would have been achievable with the weather that blessed the country last week.
For what it’s worth, Rory McIlroy’s carded a 79 in his disastrous opening round at Portrush in 2019.
Tom Brady at Ballybunion
Brady played Ballybunion on Saturday morning, fresh off his Late Late Show appearance. According to an interview with course manager John Eggleston in the Kerryman, Brady and the caddies enjoyed some banter about shorts.
“He got a lovely sunny day for it as well and he got a good kick out of the caddies being out in shorts and they were giving him some stick that he was used to the heat in Miami and he must have been feeling the cold because he was playing in pants.”
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