Georgia Hall hopes boyfriend (former tour winner) can inspire win

Georgia Hall is hoping her caddie and boyfriend, former tour pro Paul Dunne, can help inspire her to victory at this week’s KPMG Women’s Irish Open at Carton House.

Dunne, who first rose to prominence by sharing the 54-hole lead at the 2015 Open as an amateur, has a DP World Tour victory at the British Masters in 2017.

But after his own playing career was derailed by injury and driver woes, Dunne is now spending his time on the bag for his new partner Hall.

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The Irishman lost his DP World Tour card in 2019 and has not played an event since the Czech Challenge on the HotelPlanner Tour back in October.

And while he won’t be teeing it up this week, this will be somewhat of a home game for Dunne at an event that takes place near to where he grew up in Wicklow.

“I’ve come here quite a lot over the last four or five months because of him so I was here last week and staying in a home environment for me and him in Greystones it will feel very local,” Hall said.

On the expertise of her new caddie, Hall added: “He started with me at the start of the year and he’s done pretty much nearly every event with me.

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Ben Parsons is the Senior Writer at bunkered and is the man to come to for all of the latest news, across both the professional and amateur games. Formerly of The Mirror and Press Association, he is a member at Halifax Golf Club and is a long-suffering fan of both Manchester United and the Wales rugby team.