After Paul McGinley’s near two-year commitment to Europe’s victorious Ryder Cup campaign his expanding off course business initiatives will see him contest just 15 events in 2015.
McGinley stepped back into the realm of a normal Tour member, and swapping his special commissioned Ryder Cup captain’s golf bag for a standard TaylorMade model, at last week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and finishing a credible 42nd.
The result, earning McGinley Euro 19,900, ended a dismal run of five missed cuts for the Dubliner who was contesting just his 11th event this year.
www.clubstohire.com and just one of Paul McGinley’s thriving business initiatives.
McGinley will have his ‘business’ hat on this morning (TUES) on Portugal’s Algarve when he plants a ceremonial pine tree that will official open his redesign of the North Course at the Quinta do Lago resort.
And while McGinley is involved with the very successful ‘clubsforhire.com’ he will also travel to Ghana next Monday to officially open the new redesigned Achimota Golf Club course and 80 years after it was first opened.
“It’s exciting as there is a great golfing legacy in Ghana as they have 14 courses, most of them designed in the 1920s and 1930s by the British, but they’ve been left to rack and ruin over the last few years,” said McGinley.
“I sold the idea to Tullow Oil and with the help also of the R & A the new course will open next Monday.
“It’s just one thing after another at present but then it’s also exciting times for me.
“I am meant to be playing Portugal. I’m keen on playing but I’ll just see what’s happening with the family.
“It’s just that the minute the Ryder Cup was over I seem to be on the go, and I think I had just 36 hours at home before heading to the Dunhill, so I’ve got to get my balance right with a lot of other things.
“It’s why I am going to play a half schedule of 14, 15 event next year as I’ve just go so many other things going on and I don’t to be travelling away from the family for 30 weeks a year.”
Prior to accepting the Ryder Cup captaincy McGinley averaged 25 events a season over 21 straight seasons from 1992 up to the end of 2013.
However he played just 17 last year and will officially end his 23rd year on Tour teeing up in the October 30th starting BMW Masters on an invitation and a ‘thank you’ for the company’s involvement in the Ryder Cup.
And there is one business task McGinley again ruled out and that is writing any book on his captaining of the 2014 winning Ryder Cup team.
“There will be no book,” he declared.
“I had an agreement with the players to say whatever happens in the team room would stay in the team room, so I won’t be writing any book and I’m not going back on my word.”
