2019 Colin 'Mulligan' McShank Introduction to the Irish Highwayman

                                                         Colin 'Mulligan' McShank

- The 'Irish Highwayman' also called by his blokes back home, 'The Limerick Flash.'


-His claim to fame that makes him a semi-legend (at least in his mind), winning in the same year three of the four PGA Major Tournaments.


- However, after his meteoric rise to the top spot that season, he fell back down to earth, like a stone, more like a dive crash into a wall head first.


-The words 'in the pan' started to follow him wherever he went. People would blurt out, “There goes flash-in-the-pan, the Irish Highwayman.”


-It bothers him the many failed attempts to qualify in later years for the same tournaments he won before the exemptions lapsed The once promising golfer had fallen out of the top ranks of the PGA way before.


-After retirement when his sponsor dropped him, a usual place to find the once promising golfer was hustling the general public at courses in California.


-Then fate comes his way when he becomes a golf pro at WOGO. The company was a startup global virtual reality golf experience organization, poised to go public in the future. As luck would have it, they could not find anyone on the cheap to be a spokesperson and an ambassador for Virtual Golf. Maybe it was just the luck of the Irish that brought them together as the Vice President of the tech golf company played a round with Colin. Naturally after spotting a stroke a hole, the Highwayman won his wager and soon after a job.


-McShank worked in the beginning at the company basically for peanuts, no literally like the ones with no shells served in bars most of the time. The company was very young without much cash on hand, but one that plays hard. A great fit for McShank, as he starts to accumulate vast amounts of company stock that he shoves into draws back home. He was told the paper was useless right now, that was five years ago.


-The 'Irish Highway Man' as the company marketed him to the virtual golfers, became a cult like hero almost over night. The equivalent to former Formula One racer from the 1970s Jackie Stewart.


-His new found status as a golf guru makes him a very sought after sports advertising commodity. The endorsement deals rival superstars in the NBA, like Durant, James and iconic brand Jordan. Also, combined with those now useful stock shares that totals over $75 million, life was finally getting good.


- But, in the PGA, his 'Home League' as he likes to mention when he can as a television golf analyst. Colin gives shout outs to the 'Folks back home.' The PGA started to market some of his iconic comments and all sorts of items with his calling card or slogan (said in his Irish brogue), “Hey, golf buds, get off yer soft cushions and hit some roundness on the greens and let's get riled up today, go PGA!”


- As a writer, the weekly, 'McShank's Player Picks' has become the industry's equal to the NFL's Fantasy Football-Start'em or Sit'em each week.


-Colin 'Mulligan' McShank will never be knighted for gallantry on the green. However, his gritty determination to succeed in the sport he loves, make 'The Irish Highwayman' a modern icon for the sport of golf.