*Amelia Malone. Photograph: Joe Buckley
Ten year old Amelia Malone from Ennis is in Scotland this weekend competing in the Wee Wonders grand golf finals which are taking place at Gillane 3 golf course which is a short distance from Muirfield.
A member of Woodstock Golf Club, Amelia qualified from the Clare finals which were held at East Clare.
She then qualified from the regional finals at Ballina in Mayo. The daughter of Robbie and Grainne (Chaplin) she is the eldest of three children, Elsie and Cleo being her younger siblings.
A pupil at Ennis National School where she will be starting fourth class, she is in her father’s words “sports mad”. She plays camogie and football with Éire Óg, rugby with Ennis RFC and taekwando with Tim Forde’s class.
Playing golf for just over a year, she first got interested in the sport when “chipping and putting” with her grandfather Tom in the back garden at their home.
Tom is also well known in sporting circles, he is a member of Woodstock Golf Club, a Clare senior football championship winner with his native Shannon Gaels while he was a key member of the One Mile Inn squash club for many years.
After joining Woodstock, Amelia who plays off a handicap of 37.6, joined the junior section and credits junior officer Mark Hogan for his work with the group while she also thanked Shane Ryan who provides some coaching.
