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

Patrick Harrington, the 14-year-old son of three-time major winner Pádraig Harrington, says he doesn’t get asked about his famous father too much, but when he does, the first question usually is an inquiry about his handicap.

Kenny Perry, who won the US Senior Open in July, never tasted major championship glory during an otherwise successful PGA Tour career.

Kevin Markham takes a look at the Royal Birkdale as the course prepares to host The Open Championship.

Ronan Collins, PGA Professional at Fota Island, reckons he can make some kind of golfer out of our reporter at Fota’s Golf Academy. This week, some remedial action, writes Larry Ryan

Kevin Markham on a bucket list with a difference.

Muirfield has told women interested in joining its ranks to “go for it” but be prepared for a wait after the course reversed a men-only membership policy and was restored as an Open venue.

The result of a second ballot on admitting women members at Muirfield is expected to be announced by the middle of next month.

Jack Nicklaus fought back the tears in an emotional tribute to his long-time friend and great rival at the memorial service for Arnold Palmer in Latrobe, Pennsylvania on Tuesday.

The blame game is par for the course in the Ryder Cup, writes Kevin Markham.

It was said many years ago but the hellish pronouncement of the founder and designer Henry Clay Fownes should be posted on a large sign at the entrance to Oakmont Country Club.

Christy O’Connor Sr was an Irish national treasure who took on golf’s global giants and beat them, his funeral has heard.

Christy O’Connor didn’t subscribe to the view that his enormous success on the golf course was attributable to a natural God-given talent for the game.

It was 60 years ago this week that television viewers watched the Masters for the first time.

Given his own extraordinary level of expectation, Jordan Spieth would have been somewhat worried about his form coming into the US Masters this week.

Contrived in so many ways, “The Big Three” was a phrase that clearly caught on with golf journalists nearly a half-century ago. The fact it encompassed the three most popular golfers at the time — Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player — made it an easy embrace for both writers and fans.

It’s an Aladdin’s cave for golf nuts. Heaven for hackers. Valhalla for garage golfers and other madcap inventors believing they’ve come up with the game’s greatest gadget.

Jordan Spieth spent the first official practice day of the new year in good company.

The tactical battles that will decide the games in Thurles

Right smack in the middle of Sunday lunch hour, the insufferable humidity was putting its chokehold around Pinehurst No 2 when a glance at the tee sheet showed that we were still three hours away from the assigned starting time of the US Open leader, Martin Kaymer.

He’s never been a fan of the course and has never played well in the tournament at Crans-sur-Sierre but then Pádraig Harrington warmed up for the Omega European Masters shooting a 66 in yesterday’s Pro-Am.

I definitely feel like now I can go out and have more control of my golf ball, which is a good thing, while my short game is pretty good so I have brought a few positives here to the PGA

Five weeks after suffering the heartache of a record sixth runners-up finish in the US Open, Phil Mickelson today won the 142nd Open Championship at Muirfield in thrilling fashion.

The Open Championship may lack a prominent Irish contender, but there are a host of significant others at the top of the leaderboard heading into a testing second day at sun-baked Muirfield to suggest class will out yet again at this venerable links.

Former Masters champion Zach Johnson today began the 142nd Open Championship in the same imperious style as he did the 141st, but there was no let up in the misery for world number two Rory McIlroy.

Adam Scott learned to get tough to win a Major, Justin Rose’s perseverance earned him a US Open title and for Pádraig Harrington, it was understanding that nothing mattered except for the last nine holes on a Sunday.

British Open Championshipcontenders beware, Tiger Woods could be having a Hoylake moment here at Muirfield.

In 1992, I was fortunate enough to qualify for my one and only appearance in a Major, the British Open Championship at Muirfield.

Jack Nicklaus never achieved it, Tiger Woods was the last to do it and only six of the greatest players ever have, but that will not stop Justin Rose from looking to join an exclusive club next week.

So what’s it going to be? A thoroughbred major winner with killer course management and length to spare? A major virgin with a hot putter and an even hotter wedge? How about a straight-hitting gut-player with a laser-like long game and a brain?

You always had good nerves, but you’re still human. What was your most nervous moment as a pro?

Only six players have ever done the double of United States and British Open titles in the same year, but Webb Simpson may not even try to join them.

AS phenomena go, the weather curiosity known as the Marine Layer — a thick blanket of fog that hovers over the Bay Area of San Francisco – is mostly a nuisance.

All-American nice guy Matt Kuchar playfully told the media to “suck it” after clinching the US PGA Players Championship and its $1.7 million (€1.3m) winner’s cheque.

Fred Couples today became the oldest player to lead at the halfway stage of The Masters.

Pádraig Harrington may have failed to build on his career best 61 recorded in the opening round of the Transitions Championship in Florida but that Thursday display is a massive confidence booster for the three times Major champion who has slipped to 91st in the world rankings.

CHRISTY O’CONNOR SNR celebrates his 87th birthday tomorrow.

PHIL MICKLESON has been talked about in many terms –exciting and dynamic, pretentious and confounding being some of the extreme descriptions.

IT is one of those assessments that is personal to the core, a belief you attach yourself to because you’re comfortable no one can offer evidence to the contrary or shake you from your point of view.

FREDRIK JACOBSON accomplished a lot of firsts on Sunday.

Sweden's Fredrik Jacobson finished one stroke ahead of Ryan Moore and John Rollins at the Travelers Championship to claim his maiden win on the PGA Tour today.

IT has been five years since David Feherty touched alcohol but on the Sunday night of the Masters this year, he was happy to watch his fellow Irishman Rory McIlroy nurse a bottle of beer.