These games are not a bogey yet!

“THAT just sums up the day for me”. The words of Shane Lowry as his approach out of the rough on his ninth hole hit one tree, then another, and he double-bogeyed.

It just summed it up for the rest of us too, Shane – as great as it was on a personal note to spend the weekend following Rory McIlroy and himself around the Kasumigaseki Country Club on their entertaining Olympic debuts.

Super Sunday? Perhaps this was punishment for getting ahead of ourselves after the three-medal salvo that ran from Thursday through Friday.

The idea that Team Ireland could bag medal after medal, stacking them high one after the other yesterday, seemed logical. At the time, anyway.