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Adare Manor …. European Tour CEO Keith Pelley has sought to dispel rumours there is doubt over the staging of the 2022 Ryder Cup in Rome. It has been rumoured the Italian Government is struggling to raise funds for the staging of a Ryder Cup for what will be the second straight staging of the biennial event on the Continent. Pelley, however, has poured cold water on the suggestion while visiting the opening ceremony Friday of the revamped Adare Manor course near Limerick in Ireland. “I’m ...

Adare Manor, Ireland …. Rory McIlroy brushed off any Masters meltdown hangover declaring he’s confident of winning a fifth Major later this year. McIlroy returned to the golfing spotlight yesterday (FRID) when he joined fellow Irish golfing greats Padraig Harrington, Paul McGinley and Shane Lowry in the official opening of the revamped Adare Manor course in Co. Limerick. McIlroy teamed with McGinley to tackle Harrington and Lowry in a Euro 500,000 event were the winning team donated Euro ...

Adare Manor, Ireland  … Rory McIlroy reckons time remains on his side to win the Masters. McIlroy has returned to the golfing spotlight today at Adare Manor and for a first occasion since finishing six shots behind American Patrick Reed at Augusta National. Much has since been writtend about McIlroy’s poor drive off the opening hole on the final day and also his missed eagle putt at the second but McIlroy admits, and now after four attempts in striving to win the Grand Slam, he will ...

Adare Manor, Ireland …. The appearance of four-time Major winning Rory McIlroy to compete in the grand opening on Friday local time of the revamped Adare Manor course is a good news story on its own. McIlroy, along with his wife, Erica, jettted-in from Florida on Thursday ahead of the current World No. 7 joining fellow Irishman Padraig Harrington, Shane Lowry and Paul McGinley is a teams event to officially open the Tom Fazio redesigned Adare Manor course. McIlroy headed straight for the 18th ...

Adare Manor, Ireland … It has been 10-years since I was last here at Adara Manor and what a transformation. I travelled here for the 2007 Irish Open and won by Ireland’s favourite, Padraig Harrington who would cross the Irish Sea a good few weeks later and capture the Open Championship. The second Irish Open was a year later when England’s Richard Finch fell backwards into the River Maigue in playing his second shot into the 72nd green. Now after a multi-million Tom Fazio redesign ...

It’s a little-known fact that the mental coach to World No. 4 Jon Rahm is a former bomb disposal expert. Joseba del Carmen has been working with Rahm since 2014 but in that time has also balanced working also with the Baskonia-Alvares Group and on the coaching staff of the famed Spanish football teams, Deportivo Alvares and Saska Baskonia. Del Garman specialised in strategic coaching and helped greatly to the growth of both clubs by mapping and shaping different strategies on direction and ...

It certainly may not have happened a week earlier at the Masters. When Japan’s Satoshi Kodaira slipped into the winning jacket at the close of last Sunday’s RBC Heritage Classic little did anyone know it was a borrowed jacket. This is according to a story written by David Lauderdale from The Island Packet Online. As Gov. Henry McMaster and other dignitaries looked on, Doug McGregor, chairman and chief executive officer of RBC Capital Markets and now a Hilton Head Island homeowner, slipped ...