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Article: THE walls are festooned with pictures of Tiger Woods, Payne Stewart, Mark O'Meara and other legends. Massive salmon and sea trout gaze down with big, empty black eyes from glass cases. Big fish could never resist the lure of Waterville.
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- December 20, 2008
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THE walls are festooned with pictures of Tiger Woods, Payne Stewart, Mark O'Meara and other legends. Massive salmon and sea trout gaze down with big, empty black eyes from glass cases. Big fish could never resist the lure of Waterville.
Even on a dull, wintry afternoon, with clouds cloaking the mountains and stinging rain driving all but one or two lunatics off its world-famous links, this place is beguiling.
David Higgins suggested we meet at The Lobster Bar. It's relatively quiet, until Eugene Hayes and Jimmy Curran amble in from the gloaming, their boots mud-spattered.
Higgins introduces Hayes as the best gillie in south ...