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Ross, 36, drove from his home in Fife and tracked down the location, hundreds of metres down an old track which was overgrown with gorse.

There is little diversity on the majority of the 146-acre land, with nearly all fields grazed by sheep, but there are some wetter areas and some hedgerows of blackthorn, hawthorn, hazel, oak, gorse and holly.

After a two-under 34 on the front nine, Lowry's momentum stalled at the par-four 11th when he hooked his second shot into a gorse bush, leading to a double bogey.

From there he hit what former Solheim Cup captain Catriona Matthew called an "inexplicable hook" straight across the fairway and deep into a gorse bush.

Firefighters are battling a large gorse fire in the Mourne Mountains.