A HEART-to-heart in Rory McIlroy’s kitchen convinced manager Andrew ‘Chubby’ Chandler the young Irishman was over his Augusta collapse and ready to win a major.

TO INSURE or not to insure? That was the dilemma facing Gerard O'Toole, executive chairman of Nissan Ireland, once he decided to offer the new state-of-the-art Nissan Murano to the first golfer to hole the 15th in one at this week's Irish Open.