Paul Kimmage meets Seamus Power: Missing out on the Ryder Cup, a nightmare year and finally getting back
Waterford golfer has endured more than his share of setbacks but he is finally feeling the worst is behind him
Seamus Power: ‘The thing that was really encouraging was that it was the first time in a year that I felt 100 per cent.’ Picture by Mike Ehrmann / Getty
It was the week after the Masters last year and a friend had offered him an apartment in Harbour Town for the tournament at Hilton Head. That’s a thing about Seamus Power; study him on the course, or on the range, and you might easily tag him as a loner. There’s no small talk. He’s all business. But he seems to have friends in every city in America.
It was a Tuesday afternoon, two days before the opening round, and I had been ‘chasing’ — a loose term — the interview since February. I mean, he’d been a pro for 12 years for f**k sake, gone to an Olympics with Pádraig, and was older than both Rory and Shane, so I clearly hadn’t been running very hard. Not that it bothered him.
