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.

Two weeks before the Ryder Cup Lee Westwood has come through his first 18-hole fitness test with flying colours - not just physically, but also how he played.

Lee Westwood today launched a series of three-day golf academies around England for boys and girls aged seven to 16-years-old.

CHRISTY O’Connor is 80 years young today, another milestone in the life of one of the greatest sporting stars Ireland has ever produced.

PAUL McGINLEY yesterday joined a long list of Irish men who have played crucial parts in Ryder Cup victories.