IT is usually cowboys who find comfort at home on the range but that is exactly where Rory McIlroy is hoping his ongoing golfing success will spring from.

RORY McILROY shot a remarkable 23 birdies, eight of them in a final round of 68, and an eagle, but four players still finished ahead of him in the Memorial tournament at Muirfield Village on Sunday.

THERE is a delightfully green hue to the leaderboard at the halfway stage of the Andalucia Masters at Valderrama, with the final match in today’s third round involving Ireland’s Graeme McDowell and Gareth Maybin.

Ryder Cup hero Graeme McDowell was elevated to legendary status at his hometown golf club today as fans and friends celebrated his dramatic match-winning performance.

DARREN CLARKE is quietly hopeful yesterday’s victory in the JP McManus Pro-Am at Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort may reignite his season and eventually lead to a much coveted return to Ryder Cup action.

COREY Pavin, the US Ryder Cup team captain, must be wondering what’s going on these days.

PHIL, Tiger, even David, all came calling but Lucas Glover answered all the questions thrown at him by some of golf’s greatest at Bethpage yesterday and still came through to capture the 109th US Open Championship.

THE USGA, by general agreement, did a great job in staging the 108th US Open Championship. But they lost a lot of friends yesterday through the continuation of their tradition of deciding a tie in the event with an 18-hole play-off.

Padraig Harrington effectively played himself out of contention for the US Open Championship at Torrey Pines yesterday after opening with a dismal seven-over-par round of 78.

He’s one of the world’s richest and most bombastic business men — and Donald Trump always gets his way. Which is why no-one’s betting against him hosting a future US Open on his own New Jersey creation. SIMON LEWIS reports from New York.

Defending US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy shot “in the mid-80s” and lost seven balls. Is Oakmont about to reduce the world’s best players to weekend hackers, asks Simon Lewis in Pittsburgh.

Niall Turner led home Ireland's quartet of golfers and helped his team to a US collegiate national top10 finish at the season-ending NCAA Championships in Williamsburg, Virginia.

NOT since the US Open Championship at Shinnecock Hills in 2003 has Pádraig Harrington finished in the top ten of a major championship.

US MASTERS Champion and the world’s fourth-ranked player, Phil Mickelson, has confirmed his participation in the World Golf Championships/American Express Championship in less than four weeks time, when the world’s top golfers will take to the fairways at Mount Juliet from September 30 to October 3 to compete for their share of the $7 million purse.

US Open Championship, Flushing Meadows, New York

Retif Goosen put the golf clubs to one side after his US Open win, and fears his game may pay the price at the European Open. Charlie Mulqueen reports from Staffan.

SUNDAY certainly was some day for the Byrne family from Howth in Co Dublin.

YOU all know the one about patience seldom in a woman, never in a man. Well, females aren't allowed to play in the US Open so the males had the field to themselves yesterday to disprove that old adage.

ONE is currently seventh in the rankings, the other 14th, but right now there seems to be a whole world separating Ireland's two challengers in the US Open Championship starting at Shinnecock Hills this morning.

TIGER WOODS, Phil Mickelson and all the other long but wayward hitting golfers have been warned.

THE Country Club of Rochester, the venue for this week’s US Open Championship, holds a special place in the hearts and minds of Irish golfers.

TIGER WOODS last night came out on the side of Padraig Harrington’s viewpoint, that winning the US Open Championship very often involves playing a lot of boring golf.

Retief Goosen has won the Asprey Golfer of the Month Award for April.

2002 PGA European Tour Schedule

Defending champion Ernie Els has reluctantly pulled out of this week’s Scottish Open at Loch Lomond with a back injury.