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How do you follow that? Quite simply, you don't.

It's an impossible ask to replicate the success that the 36th Ryder Cup at The K Club was in every single facet, but somehow those involved in promoting Ireland as a golf destination - both for tourism but especially for future tournaments - must attempt to maintain the momentum, the current buzz-word in golf, generated by this match.