Rory McIlroy shot the lowest halfway total in US Open history today and will take a record-equalling six-stroke lead over Korean YE Yang into the third round at Congressional.

Play has been suspended on day two of the US Open due to a threat of lightning.

Rory McIlroy achieved the lowest 36-hole total in US Open history today – even with a double-bogey six at the final hole of his second round.

From a league of his own to re-writing history – Rory McIlroy continued to dazzle in the US Open at Congressional today.

RORY McILROY’S recent comment that he “looked forward to playing for Team GB” in the 2016 Olympic Games revived a controversy that blew up more than 50 years ago when a great Irish lady golfer withdrew from the Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup team because the blazer badge displayed only the Union Jack flag.

THE BOOKMAKERS don’t often get it wrong but after studying the less than overwhelming performances by our leading players in recent tournaments, it is surprising to see Pádraig Harrington (25/1) and Rory McIlroy (28/1), quoted as third and fourth favourites for this week’s Open Championship at Turnberry.

IT is a tribute to the heart and soul of any production that it can shine and entertain to the fullest, despite the efforts of many to drag it down.

A clean-up operation was under way at the Ryder Cup venue today after the remnants of Hurricane Ike ripped through Louisville.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON now lies joint 10th on the European list of major winners.

Injured Padraig Harrington has admitted that if it was any event other than his Open title defence he would have already quit and gone home.

Five-time Open champion Peter Thomson today led the tributes to Norman Von Nida, who has died at the age of 93.

Former Open champion Mark Calcavecchia and South African David Frost add a little extra international flavour to the Telecom Italian Open in Milan this week.

CHRISTY O’CONNOR Snr has been accorded honorary life membership of the European Tour.

Ireland’s Peter Lawrie was today clinging on to his slender lead in the second round of the Algarve Open de Portugal.

Ireland’s Peter Lawrie quickly extended his lead in the early stages of the second round of the Algarve Open de Portugal today.

At 9.01am precisely tomorrow the eyes of the sporting world turn to Muirfield and its golfing minefields.