During the 2011 Ryder Cup in Medina Golf Club, Chicago, television cameras captured Rory McIllroy as he looked into a cloudless sky to see ‘GO RORY!’ being spelt out by a plane emitting puffs of smoke from its bowels. He stopped, took out his phone and took a photo.

ONCE the slide begins, it is incredible how quickly even the greatest can fall from grace.

RORY McIlroy has thrown down the Ryder Cup gauntlet to Tiger Woods after declaring, I’m desperate to beat you.