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South African club has male member that is touring Irish county shortly (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

knobkerrie

'south african club' is the definition.
(type of African weapon)

'male member that is touring irish county shortly' is the wordplay.
'male member' becomes 'knob' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'that is' becomes 'ie' ('i.e.' can be a synonym of 'that is').
'touring' means one lot of letters goes inside another (touring can mean going round).
'irish county' becomes 'kerry' (I've seen this before).
'shortly' means to remove the last letter.
'knob'+'ie'='knobie'
'kerry' with its final letter taken away is 'kerr'.
'knobie' placed around 'kerr' is 'KNOBKERRIE'.

'has' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for knobkerrie that I've seen before include "South African wooden weapon" , "club" , "Stick" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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