Rory McIlroy is officially a free agent when it comes to golf equipment.

I have looked as hard as I can around this monster of a golf course and searched the massive structure that is the clubhouse.

Partisan, loud, raucous and fun.

Sergio Garcia’s good form in the US this weekend means Pádraig Harrington will need a FedEx Cup play-off victory at The Barclays next Sunday if he is to realise his ambition of a Ryder Cup wild card next month at Medinah.

Rory McIlroy repeated his stunning US Open success to capture the PGA Championship with a similar commanding eight-stroke winning margin of victory along the sun-splashed Kiawah Island shoreline.

Rory McIlroy’s got his mojo back

Rory McIlroy’s curls are a lot curlier, but the sparkle continues in his game on a brutal second day of the 94th PGA Championship at Kiawah Island.

Graeme McDowell has questioned the nature of the Kiawah Island course set-up on a windswept day two of the 94th PGA Championship.

Tiger Woods heads to this week’s PGA Championship with a one win in 24 record on Pete Dye designed golf courses.

Pádraig Harrington has his last chance of making the European Ryder Cup team when he travels to Kiawah Island this week in search of a second US PGA Championship.

With the top two spots on the leaderboard held by a South African and an Australian, the British Open provided considerable food for thought for the rival Ryder Cup captains Davis Love III and Jose-Maria Olazabal.

Europe are the ones using motivational videos in the final countdown to the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor – and a talk by Welsh rugby legend Gareth Edwards - but the Americans have been spoken to in their team room by a decorated fighter pilot back from Iraq.

Ian Woosnam made his 17th appearance in the World Cup today – and rarely can he have experienced such a strange start to the $1.4m team contest.

BERNHARD LANGER has never been one for jumping fences before he met them so it was all the more surprising to hear him recently express some doubts about his position as 2004 European Ryder Cup captain.

IT WAS just a round of golf. Not life or death, not world-changing, not important in the grand scheme of things.