Kilty a man with a mission in Rio for Team Ireland

A small ante room in the Westbury Hotel yesterday morning is the setting.

Paul McGinley’s glaringly green golf sweater isn’t so much loud as ear-splitting (and eye-watering) in a gathering of otherwise sober suits and dark jackets, none of which are divested until the new arrivals have had some minutes to fully shake the winter cold from their bones.

McGinley would still have stood out had his jumper not.