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Watch out: Young golfers vie to be champion of champions

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I love golf because it can sometimes be the best game, it can sometimes be the worst game.

“You can have a good round, and you can have a bad round.”

Professional and amateur golfers know that feeling only too well. Just ask Rory McIlroy.

However, those words of wisdom were spoken by nine-year-old Benji Botham.

Along with his younger brother Harley, he’s competing in the Champion of Champions Junior Golf World Championship in County Fermanagh.

The event has brought 250 young golfers from 42 countries to the Lough Erne Resort.

Seven-year-old Harley agrees with his big brother when asked why he likes golf.

“It’s also the difficultist game in the world and it’s the easiest,” he says.

They both began playing the sport as toddlers with a plastic toy golf set in the living room.

But now they say they can beat their grandad.

So what does Lord Ian Botham (yes the legendary England cricketer) think of his grandsons being better golfers than him?

“I don’t think he’ll be very happy”, says Benji.

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