Alan Dunbar – winner of the British Amateur championship last month – has called on veteran caddie John Mulrooney, who was on the bag for Darren Clarke at Sandwich a year ago, to guide him around the Lancashire links in his maiden Major.
“I have the defending champion’s bagman . . . he’s been great,” said Dunbar of Mulrooney, who had a short but sweet time on Clarke’s bag until the pair parted ways in January.
Mulrooney originally picked up Clarke’s bag last year in what seemed like a episode of Monty Python.
Mulooney, from Bray, went to a tournament in Mallorca expecting to act as caddie for David Howell who withdrew through injury. Then, he got the job on Martin Lafeber’s bag. But he, too, withdrew injured.
In the meantime, Clarke’s intended bagman Ricky Roberts decided he wanted to attend Ernie Els’s induction into the Hall of Fame in Florida. So it was that Clarke and Mulrooney were paired up, a brief relationship that hit a high point in Sandwich.
This week at Royal Lytham & St. Anne's Dunbar is one of only two amateurs in the field – along with European champion Manuel Trappel of Austria – battling it out for the silver medal.
“I am trying to play well and obviously I want to make the cut,” said Dunbar, who played a practice round with Clarke and Graeme McDowell yesterday.
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