Rory McIlroy and Caroline Wozniacki have hit rumours of a break-up into the rough after the two appeared together in Dubai.

R&A chief executive Peter Dawson believes a new international qualifying series for the Open Championship will be more “rigorous” than International Final Qualifying which it replaces.

Rory McIlroy last night turned up the heat under golf’s great debate by tweeting his backing of Paul McGinley as the ideal captain to lead Europe’s defence of the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles in September 2014.

IT was ‘Tigermania’ all over again and 15 years after Tiger Woods had first set foot on Australian soil.