{"id":41723,"date":"2025-09-03T21:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/41723\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:51:08","slug":"whole-of-gaa-is-in-awe-of-the-cliffords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/41723\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole of GAA is in awe of the Cliffords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronan Maher may be a newly-minted All Ireland champion but the Tipperary hurler spoke of being in awe of Kerry\u2019s golden football duo Paudie and David Clifford after playing alongside the brothers in Wednesday\u2019s Amgen Irish Open Pro-Am at The K Club.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders what South African 24-year-old Jayden Schaper made of being the professional around the Palmer North course front nine in such illustrious Irish company but such was the GAA trio\u2019s sporting prowess on the fairways and greens in Kildare he must have been as impressed at the galleries which accompanied them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4767401_9_articleinlinemobile_3227137.jpg\" alt=\"David Clifford, left, Ronan Maher and Paudie Clifford. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" title=\"David Clifford, left, Ronan Maher and Paudie Clifford. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" class=\"card-img\"\/>David Clifford, left, Ronan Maher and Paudie Clifford. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Cliffords certainly made their mark on Maher, who after a second-place finish in the Pro-Am for their team, said of the Fossa brothers: \u201cIt was unbelievable. Serious footballers but serious golfers as well. They\u2019re top-class men and they\u2019re great for the county of Kerry. I think the whole GAA are in awe of the two boys, they\u2019ve been unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI even went up to the All-Ireland football final just to see the two of them play and they were unreal too. So they\u2019re great for the GAA.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As for the golf, Maher added: \u201cWe were happy enough and had a good bit of craic going around and the K Club is amazing, I count myself lucky to get on here today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4767404_9_articleinlinemobile_3227224.jpg\" alt=\"Ronan Maher and David Clifford. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" title=\"Ronan Maher and David Clifford. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Ronan Maher and David Clifford. Photo by Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI had an eagle putt on one of the holes so I was happy enough with that one.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronan Maher may be a newly-minted All Ireland champion but the Tipperary hurler spoke of being in awe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,22,129,19,17,119,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-41723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-hurling","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}