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World No. 1 Rory McIlroy could lead a general players revolt should fellow Irishman Paul McGinley not be appointed 2014 European Team captain. The Players Committee will convene at 7.30pm UAE time tonight in the St. Regis (TUE) Hotel at Saadiyat Beach to vote on a replacement for Spain’s Jose Maria Olazabal. McGinley and Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie are the only two known candidates given Darren Clarke has officially advised committee chairman, Thomas Bjorn he will not be contesting the Gleneagles ...

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy delivered fellow Irishman Paul McGinley a ringing 2014 Ryder Cup captaincy endorsement ahead of tonight’s (TUES) Gleneagles vote. The Tournament Players Committee will meet in St Regis Hotel at Saadiyat Beach in Abu Dhabi  to decide a successor to Jose Maria Olazabal and with McGinley now favourite to become the first-ever Irish born captain in the 85-year history of the Ryder Cup. With Darren Clarke seemingly out of the vote McGinley’s only other rival is Colin Montgomerie ...

Rory McIlroy’s official unveiling with sports giant Nike took on an Academy Award presentation proportions with the World No.1 denying his reputed $200m deal is about the money.  Nearly two dozen TV cameras and some 200 invited guests and media waited impatiently for confirmation of golf’s worst-kept secret.  With Abu Dhabi’s 80-dome Grand Mosque lit up in the distance McIlroy finally stepped onto a platform leading from the edge of one of the many Arabian Gulf fed waterways in the UAE capital ...

There is no denying World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has helped boost the coffers of his management company – Horizon Sports Management Ltd. The Dublin-based sports management company set up in 2005 by Conor Ridge and Colin Morrissey and started out in a Ballsbridge basement in south Dublin. Five years earlier the Irish-born Ridge was working for an electronics giant in an office in Sydney, Australia.  However after attending the University College Dublin he obtained a master’s degree in marketing ...

Triple Major winning Padraig Harrington took full advantage of this week’s no-cut Volvo Champions event with a masterful third round 67 in the Volvo Champions in Durban. Harrington capped his third round with an eagle at the par five, 10th hole where the Dubliner hit a 3-ion from 245-yards out that landed just five feet short of the flagstick. The Dubliner ended the day in a share of fifth place on eight under par but lying seven strokes behind Scotland’s Scott Jamieson who heads the ...

Scott Jamieson is determined to silence any doubters and also on target to make a Masters debut after storming to a five-shot lead on the third day of the Volvo Champions event in Durban. The 29-year old Glaswegian snatched an eagle and five birdies in a four under par 68 to move to 15-under par in the elite 33-player field on the rain-soaked Durban Country Club course.  Jamieson was in South Africa’s third largest city only a month ago and breaking through to capture his first Tour title, the ...

Scotland’s Scott Jamieson held off the expected challenge of crowd favourite Louis Oosthuizen to storm to a five shot lead on day three of the Volvo Champions in Durban. Jamieson began the round a stroke behind the former British Open champion but ended the round with a 68 to move five shots clear of the World No. 6 ranked Oothuizen at 15-under par on a rain-softened Durban Country Club course. The 29-year old Glasgow golfer broke through a month ago in South Africa’s third largest city and now ...