Matt Kuchar, Rafa Cabrera-Bello and 2010 US Open champion Graeme McDowell were also confirmed to play this morning.

Form is clearly temporary in hurling. If the bookmakers are to believed, the 100% 2019 Munster SHC record Tipperary bring to Limerick on Sunday is of no consequence and will be broken.

This past year I’ve gone back to college to study sports science and yesterday morning I had to hand in an assignment.

The encouraging phone calls from Mick McCarthy helped, as did the support of his fellow Irishmen in the Deepdale dressing room and the countless monotonous, gruelling hours he has spent in the gym.

By last Sunday morning, my voice was creaking, writes Anthony Daly

By last Sunday morning, my voice was creaking, writes Anthony Daly

I’m so pleased for Limerick.

Paul McGinley foresees more of golf’s young elite like Rory McIlroy suffering injuries because of the stress they are putting on their bodies.

Rangers have parted company with manager Pedro Caixinha, the club have announced.

Shane Lowry will forever remember 2016 as the year he got married and then learned he will become a father five weeks before the 2017 Masters.

Adam Scott is delighted that this week’s World Cup of Golf has returned to a more traditional team event but the Australian remains opposed to any future participation at the Olympics.

Graeme McDowell is on the verge of doing something really “big” in the game but those who fancy a Masters flutter on the pride of Portrush should save their cash for another day.

Donald Trump may become the 45th President of the United States but whether or not he becomes a distraction as his Trump National Doral course hosts the WGC Cadillac Championship this week, he’s unlikely to change the essence of the way he goes about his business.

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Peter Cowen’s coaching academy near Sheffield has been broken into 25 times including seven break-ins this year alone, but fortunately tapes of Graeme McDowell’s golf swing in 2010 remain secure.

Graeme McDowell is not surprised world No. 1 Rory McIlroy has withdrawn from next week’s Open Championship at St Andrews.

Past champion Graeme McDowell believes he may have found a key to unlock the secrets of the little-known Chambers Bay course, venue for next week’s US Open.

Brendan Cummins isn’t just an emerging coach with his work with the goalkeepers of Laois and Kerry; he’s also one of hurling’s younger and more insightful analysts.

Ronnie O’Sullivan’s rookie World Championship opponent fears Crucible humiliation before he even plays his first shot against the five-time winner.

Who would have succeeded in a golfing rivalry between Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods is a debate that has stirred at a thousand clubhouse bars more than 15 years, but Graeme McDowell believes the game’s next giants will turn the hypothetical into reality.

Sharon O’ Reilly-Coates has been going to Budapest for 12 years - and she’s never disappointed by the city

Fellow PGA Champion Keegan Bradley says Pádraig Harrington’s double Honda Classic success is inspirational to everyone competing on the PGA Tour.

Ryder Cup-winning captain Paul McGinley is already planning Ireland’s bid for Olympic golf glory in Rio in 2016, and says he will travel to Brazil at least twice in 2015 to scout the course that the likes of Rory McIlroy will confront.

There’s a way to write about this rationally and without sentiment.

Shane Lowry believes he’s ready to chase the American dream on the PGA Tour and play the kind of global schedule that could make him a Ryder Cup player and an Olympian in 2016.

If Munster Rugby had any doubts they had made the right move in appointing a full-time nutritionist this summer their decision received some very public backing during the November internationals.

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Scott Brown laid down the ground rules early.

"I’ll take this position any week that you offer it to me, a one-shot lead going into the last round on a golf course that I enjoy."

Paul McGinley left nothing to chance in his masterplan to retain the Ryder Cup for Europe. It was an attention to detail that one journalist suggested was borderline "disturbing" but it got the required outcome.

When eight-time major champion Tom Watson was picked to captain the US Ryder Cup team at Gleneagles, it was considered a masterstroke by the US PGA.

United States captain Tom Watson put his faith in his three youngest players to kickstart his side’s bid for an unlikely Ryder Cup victory at Gleneagles on Sunday.

Paul McGinley has turned to Rory McIlroy to get beaten and bruised Ian Poulter back into Ryder Cup hero-mode after reuniting the pair for this morning’s fourballs session at Gleneagles.

Nowhere are the twin impostors of success and failure more in evidence than in the cauldron of Ryder Cup battle.

European captain Paul McGinley insists he has no concerns over Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell’s relationship ahead of next week’s Ryder Cup.

Horizon Sports Management released a statement yesterday evening announcing that Graeme McDowell will leave the company when his current contract expires at the end of the year.

European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley has thrown down the gauntlet to Shane Lowry to deliver a big US PGA Championship performance and push himself to the forefront of his team selection plans for Gleneagles in September.

A Silver Medal may have eluded Irish amateur Paul Dunne at The 143rd Open Championship but the 21-year-old student left Hoylake at the weekend with a clearer picture of his bright future.

Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley was thrilled to see Rory McIlroy head a posse of six Europeans in the top 10 at The Open.

As introductions to Major championship golf go, Paul Dunne could not have asked for better than have the world No 1 stroll up to the first tee and join him for a practice round.