{"id":69311,"date":"2025-08-15T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69311\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:05:09","slug":"doyle-thrills-county-louth-crowds-at-boys-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/69311\/","title":{"rendered":"Doyle thrills County Louth crowds at Boys\u2019 Amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"

If John Doyle felt any nerves standing on County Louth\u2019s 18th green then he didn\u2019t show them.
\nHe calmly rolled his eight-foot birdie putt into the hole to defeat Germany\u2019s Tim Brohl one up and make it through to the quarter finals of the R&A Boys\u2019 Amateur Championship.
\nNo pressure despite a gallery of approximately 100 people willing the ball to go in \u2013 and hoping the boy from Cork goes on to break a 39-year Irish drought in the premier under-18 event. You have to go back to 1986 to find an Irish winner of the Boys\u2019 Amateur.
\nDoyle is the last Irish player in the draw following Adam Fahey\u2019s 2nd round defeat. The former County Louth member lost at the 19th hole to Czech Republic player Mikulas Vojtesek despite holding a three-hole advantage at one stage of the match.
\nTight contest
\nBrohl proved more than an adequate opponent against Doyle. There was never more than one hole separating the pair. The German teenager held a one-hole lead from the 12th to the 15th holes before dropping a shot at the 16th to go back to all-square. They halved the 17th before Doyle stole the show on the last.
\n\u201cThe match was nip and tuck the whole time,\u201d Doyle said. \u201cHe\u2019s a good player and I didn\u2019t feel totally confident with my irons. I just battled, did my best and stuck to my routine. I was expecting extra holes to be honest.
\nSo was the sizeable gallery. Their relief on the last was almost palpable when Doyle\u2019s ball found the bottom of the cup.
\nHe added: \u201cI like having a crowd, to be honest. It\u2019s nice when you\u2019re playing well. It\u2019s not so great if you\u2019re not. They were fair to Tim as well so that was grand. I\u2019ve played in front of a few crowds this year so I\u2019m getting used to it and adapting to it.
\n\u201cThere was obviously more expectation today. I could feel it but at least I fulfilled it today and I\u2019ll try to do my best tomorrow as well.\u201d
\nChasing history
\nDoyle can attain an Irish double if he does go on to win the title. He won the Irish Boys\u2019 Amateur Open Championship in April. He won the Munster Men\u2019s Amateur Open the following week and in June lost in a play-off to Scotland\u2019s Cameron Adam for the St Andrews Links Trophy.
\n\u201cI had a poor enough year last year, but I\u2019ve just improved my game in every area a little bit this season and that seems to have made a big difference,\u201d he said. \u201cMy mental routine has been especially good. I have to thank Leanne Sharpe and my swing coach Michael Collins for that.
\n\u201cThey\u2019ve been fantastic. Leanne\u2019s the psychologist for the Irish Boys\u2019 team and I\u2019ve spent a lot of time with her on my routine and simple mental things that have added up to some good golf this year.\u201d Doyle now faces Spaniard Yago Horno in the last eight.
\nKuan Zhuo can still bring the Boys\u2019 Amateur trophy back to the United States of America for the first time since fellow American Stuart Scheftel achieved that honour in 1928. Zhuo earned his quarter-final spot with a 3&1 win over England\u2019s Spencer Davies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If John Doyle felt any nerves standing on County Louth\u2019s 18th green then he didn\u2019t show them. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-69311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}