Rory McIlroy is determined to end a four-year wait for a World Golf Championships victory at the WGC-HSBC Champions event in Shanghai this week.

In New Orleans, there is a blank slab of concrete where a statue of American civil war general Robert E Lee stood for 133 years.

Shane Lowry has recovered from a shaky start to card a two-under par 69 on the opening day of the Northern Trust.

FedEx has confirmed it would terminate its contract with Amazon for small-package ground deliveries, as the online retailer focuses on building out its own delivery network.

On Tuesday, Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, and Graeme McDowell enjoyed a friendly nine holes of practice at Liberty National Golf Club ahead of the Northern Trust Open, the first event in the FedEx Cup Play-offs.

Rory McIlroy fears legalising conventional gambling in the US may increase the number of fan heckling from outside the ropes at Tour events.

England's Matt Fitzpatrick shot a second-round 64 to take a two-stroke lead in the WGC-FedEx St Jude Invitational in Memphis.

Ian Poulter doesn’t believe that occasional fan abuse is an inevitable by-product of alcohol being generally available at Tour golf events.

Rory McIlroy shot a one-under-par round of 69 on the opening day of the WGC Fed Ex St Jude Invitational in Memphis.

Rory McIlroy has admitted he was more emotional and overwhelmed by the support he received at Portrush last week than missing the cut at the Open Championship. He said last night it was the first time he had to stop himself crying on a golf course.

Padraig Harrington will look to take inspiration from Shane Lowry’s Open triumph in the Barracuda Championship, where high points totals rather than low scores will be the order of the day.

World number one Brooks Koepka would welcome more equipment club testing during the season in the wake of Xander Schauffele’s row with the R&A at Royal Portrush.

After the historic Open win, the mammoth celebrations.

Former Masters winner Danny Willett has advised new Open champion Shane Lowry to be “selfish” when it comes to approaching the next 12 months as a first-time major winner.

Shane Lowry has woken up this morning as the Open champion.

People wonder how players keep their heads given the magnitude of what a prize like the Claret Jugre presents but it’s the madness of it all that overwhelms when the 18th approaches and the divide between those inside and outside the ropes begins to buckle under the waves of emotion.

“Kuch and I went to breakfast yesterday and I took about 20 pictures for him.”

A world-class champion on a world-class course.

Paul McGinley has revealed the European Tour are open to moving the date of future Irish Opens in order to attract the big beasts of the PGA Tour to these shores.

On trend for 2019, an air-cleansing houseplant is the Christmas gift that just keeps on giving, says Kya deLongchamps.

In 2015 The Guardian named Cork's Mary Harris, or “Mother Jones”, among the world's all-time top ten revolutionaries – alongside the likes of Che Guevara, Robespierre, Trotsky and Gandhi. But who was Mother Jones, asks Robert Hume, and what made her such a threat?

Black ’47, out now - Revenge thriller set during the Irish Famine. Hugo Weaving, Barry Keoghan and Stephen Rea star.

Justin Rose admits he cannot imagine a better scenario than winning a second major title to become world number one for the first time in his career.

Kinsale teenager John Murphy bagged the St Andrews Links Trophy in dramatic fashion on the 19th last night — becoming only the third Irishman to win the prestigious tournament.

Fifty years ago today Martin Luther King was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

As riots erupted and smoke billowed from black neighbourhoods in the wake of Martin Luther King’s assassination, Robert F Kennedy met with black activists, politicians, and celebrities in a hotel suite ‘to tamp things down and divine what should come next,’ writes David Margolick in ‘The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert F Kennedy’. In this excerpt, Margolick examines Kennedy’s response to the killing — and his belief that he, too, would die by an assassin’s hand.

Fifty years after Martin Luther King was assassinated, new museums and memorials are highlighting the civil rights movement, writes Isabel Conway, as she travels from Tennessee to Mississippi.

The PGA Tour rings in the new year at Kapalua for the 20th straight time. The one moment that stands above all others over the years was the titanic battle between Tiger Woods and Ernie Els in 2000.

A party atmosphere kicked off the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival when large crowds thronged a free open-air concert, signalling the start of celebrations for the festival’s 40th birthday.

Total Recall landed a monster gamble in the JT McNamara Ladbrokes Munster National Handicap Chase at Limerick.

Elvis Presley died 40 years ago today. Jonathan deBurca Butler asked some his best-known Irish fans what The King meant to them

US President Donald Trump’s warning to North Korea and Pyongyang’s threat of possible armed retaliation drove investors out of stocks and other risky assets and into textbook safe havens like gold and US debt paper.

Former US president Jimmy Carter is out of hospital after being treated for dehydration, a spokeswoman has said.

Jordan Spieth needed an extra hole, a little bit of luck and an amazing final shot to finish off a wire-to-wire victory in the Travelers Championship.

Rory McIlroy will look to bounce back from his US Open disappointment as he makes his debut in the Travelers Championship.

Three-time major winner Padraig Harrington has withdrawn from this week's FedEx St Jude Classic after being hit on the elbow by an amateur during a coaching session.

"THERE’S a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis,” sang the late Kirsty McColl.

“Sorry, but if you are overweight, pedicures will be $45 due to service fees for pedicurists".

If he’d lived, Jeff Buckley would have been 50 next week, writes Jonathan deBurca Butler

Des O’Sullivan on an Invaluable service to art lovers and buyers.

Four young children have been found stabbed to death by US police in Tennessee today.