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Tue 10 Oct 2007Of course, if they call he will build itFeature Golf Course: Philip Reidmeets a man whose golf-course construction firm has grown steadily and is now becoming a continental playerIf you grow up on the Cork-Kerry border, chances are that the ball thrust into your hands is of the large, leather variety. So it was with Michael O'Leary, who grew up playing Gaelic football alongside, among others, a certain Eoghan O'Connell, who admittedly had far more prowess with a smaller, spherical ball and went on to claim Walker Cup success and, later, a livelihood as a tour pro until his career was foreshortened by injury.