RedteQ supplied and supported the screening equipment for the 2026 Amgen Irish Open, played at Trump International Golf Links, Doonbeg, from 10 to 13 September — more than 35 X-ray systems and more than 35 walk-through metal detectors across park and ride sites, on-course search areas and offsite screening points, delivered with our Irish partner Pulse Security Management.
A links course on the Atlantic coast is not a venue you screen at the gate. Spectators park well away from the course and are bussed in, so the checkpoints sit at the park and ride sites rather than at the first tee — several separate screening operations, on different ground, that all have to deliver the same standard of detection on the same morning.
The equipment was staged and loaded in the UK, shipped to the west coast of Ireland and distributed across the sites to a planned build sequence. More than 70 systems went in across the operation — each one tested before it left our facility, commissioned in position, and proven well before the first bus arrived.
The US President's attendance was known well in advance — he watched the golf and presented the trophy to the winner — and the second security operation that came with it, including a parallel operation in Dublin, was planned into the deployment from the start. RedteQ supplied screening systems into Dublin in support of that visit alongside the tournament deployment in Clare. We won't go into the arrangements — but when a Head of State operation sits on top of a live sporting event, the equipment has to be in position and proven before anyone arrives, because nothing gets a second attempt.
Throughout the tournament, RedteQ engineers stayed locally rather than travelling in and out — available to attend any site at any hour if a system needed attention. On an event where a single lane going down turns into a queue and then into a safety problem, having people fifteen minutes away is the difference between an incident and a footnote.
Shane Lowry went on to win at Doonbeg by a record 11 strokes in front of a home crowd — every one of whom came through a screening lane to be there.
Our thanks to Pulse Security Management, whose knowledge of the ground and the agencies involved made an operation of this spread work, and to everyone who built, ran and struck the checkpoints over the week.