Carolina to Copenhagen, Finland to Fanore. Sometimes Declan Maguire wakes with his family in a strange hotel and, you suspect, scratches his head in wonderment at how the sport of golf has brought two teenage girls from west Cavan all over the world.

Hope and history briefly rhymed when Sean Quinn - a man in the news a lot at the moment - had the foresight in 1989 to construct a world class golf course from a small, wet corner of "rock and rushes and fields". A few years later, Lisa and Leona took up the sport as a pair of eager nine-year-olds, all goofy swings and giddy strokes, and something magical was born.

Within a few months it became clear that the twins had talent to burn and, more importantly, a fierce hunger for success which belied their age.

Throughout the first half of the Twentieth Century, he traversed the roads and mountain paths of many counties. Resolute, with heavily lined, time worn features, placid nature, invariably turned out in worn tweed suit, mouse eaten hat and homemade nailed boots, knew the song of the birds from early dawn. A journeyman, sheep dealer and drover, to him hardship a way of life, saw more winter dawns and moonlit nights on rain lashed roads and mountain paths from Glan Gap to Coolaney. in Sligo, Bangoriss, Crossmolina, Newport, Mulraney in Mayo. Maam and Leenane in Connemara, Barnes Gap in Donegal.