Hands clasped to his head, knees pinned to the emerald turf, chest convulsing in frenetic, ragged breaths, Rory McIlroy looked like a man subjugated by the weight of the world. Then, he propped ...

Rory McIlroy’s caddie Harry Diamond says the Northern Irish ace is “hitting it well” ahead of getting his Open Championship ...

TV presenter Richard Madeley suggested this week that Northern Ireland is economically "close to being a basket case". He ...

Turnberry is not the only Scottish links being ignored by the R&A. Muirfield, located along the Firth of Forth east of ...

So here is our final major big board of the year, ranking the top 30 golfers in the field. This is not simply the 30 best ...

It is hard to judge precisely what the benefit might have been to Rory McIlroy of a ­second near-dawn circumnavigation of Royal Portrush, save for the joy it brought early risers on the Antrim coast.