Ryder Cup watch; Irish Open winner Mikko Ilonen has put himself in the Ryder Cup conversation thanks to his stress-free, wire-to-wire victory at Fota Island.

A difficult week at Muirfield got even trickier for Open Championship organisers the R&A yesterday as some golfers rounded on near unplayable greens on the sun-parched Scottish links.

TIGER WOODS has been out on the Turnberry links for the last two mornings while the vast majority of us were still fast asleep.

Tiger Woods had completed his second practice round for The Open by just after 10am today – and described Turnberry as “a lot more difficult than people are letting on.”

SERGIO GARCIA remains confident his maiden major championship victory will come and is “just a matter of time”.