Heavyweights join Open field

RYDER CUP players Paul Casey, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Lee Westwood, double Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal and Angel Cabrera, Graeme McDowell and Nick O’Hern are the latest players to confirm their participation in the Nissan Irish Open at Carton House Golf Club, Maynooth, from May 19-22.

The field for the €2m event is further enhanced by the popular Eduardo Romero of Argentina and England's Brian Davis, who has enjoyed impressive early season performances on the US PGA Tour, where he finished joint third in the weather-affected Nissan Open and joint seventh in the Shell Houston Open.

Welcoming the announcement, Nissan Ireland executive chairman Gerard O'Toole said: "This is a tremendous line-up. With each successive year of our sponsorship, the event has attracted a strong field of leading golfers and this year we are witnessing the greatest line-up yet. We look forward to the coming weeks as the build-up to the third Nissan Irish Open continues."