Fresh from recording his best result on the Challenge Tour, Conor O’Rourke tees it up in Portugal this morning as his bid to earn a European Tour card begins at qualifying school.

While assessing Europe’s dramatic performance in the Ryder Cup yesterday for today’s article, I was conscious of a number of factors;

From McIlroy to Tiger, we look at the talking points ahead of Augusta. 

Kevin Markham on the statutes, structures, and settings which focuses a golfer’s mind and lasts long in the memory.

Most bagmen go unnoticed, quietly doing their jobs and supporting their employer to the best of their ability. That is what they have been hired to do.

To be sure, Sergio Garcia’s fifth major championship round as a major champion didn’t go quite as well as he would have hoped. 

It is appropriate in these golden times for Spanish golf that the oldest major should be returning to the place where the godfather of the sport in that country first made his mark.

Given the professional career Sergio Garcia has experienced to this point, you would imagine he is a firm believer in the Friedrich Nietzsche quote that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

Spain’s Jon Rahm produced one of the greatest final-round performances in the history of the Irish Open to take another giant step towards the pantheon of golfing greats.

Padraig Harrington will lead the Irish challenge into the final day of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.

The king is dead. Long live the king.

Rory McIlroy came to Portstewart determined to separate himself from the rest of the world’s top stars.

Jim Furyk still remembers his US Open threesome for the first two rounds many moons ago with Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood.

Sergio Garcia insisted he would have enjoyed a beautiful life with or without a major championship victory but the new Masters championship was mighty glad to be wearing a green jacket at Augusta National on Sunday night.

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Danny Willett faced a long wait to present his successor as Masters champion with a green jacket, but was at least well placed to watch a potentially thrilling shootout at Augusta National.

Jordan Spieth might have found a new way to finish the front nine at the Masters. He’s just worried about trying it when anyone is looking.

If you were only interested in the final outcome of the Ryder Cup, then this one was pretty much decided as early as last Friday morning once Europe lost the opening series of foursomes to the USA 4-0.

Do you remember these Ryder Cup moments?

Kevin Markham gives an A-Z to get you in the mood for the excitement of the Ryder Cup.

John McHenry dissects the pick of the Ryder Cup rookies.

What a way to grab you and your country’s maiden major championship victory.

Zach Johnson did not need to win The Open Championship to fall in love with it but lifting the Claret Jug a year ago helped him to really understand the significance of golf’s oldest tournament.

Former celebrity publicist Max Clifford was cleared yesterday of indecently assaulting a teenage girl.

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

Augusta Masters champion Danny Willett will add to the cast of homegrown major winners when he keeps his promise to play next month’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open at the K Club.

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

Maybe the timing of the “60 Minutes” episode on Bubba Watson wasn’t the best. Shown last Sunday night on CBS, a lead-in to the annual Masters Week, the segment was up-close and personal, with Watson talking about the demons that plague him. An assortment of fears, he said, most alarmingly his constant thoughts that a building might fall on him.

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

Rory McIlroy may have enhanced his chances of completing the career grand slam by opting out of the par-three contest, but the world No 3 still faces a tough task to end Europe’s surprising Masters drought.

Rory McIlroy has cut down on the distractions as he attempts to complete the career grand slam at Augusta this week.