World number seven Rory McIlroy will visit a Belfast-based specialist today to discover the extent of a back problem ahead of a maiden season on the US PGA Tour.

TIGER WOODS isn’t one of those American golfers content to sit at home from one end of the year to the other and flood his already overflowing bank account with still more dollars.

England’s Simon Dyson will try to achieve something only Tiger Woods has managed in 2007 when he defends his KLM Open title this week.