McGinley determined to make major impression

PAUL McGINLEY has simply been itching to get back into major championship action for the best part of a year. Now the chance has come.

The last one the Dubliner played was the US PGA at Whistling Straits last August and, in one of the performances of his life, he was the leading European in joint sixth place.

It was no distant sixth either. McGinley played 282 strokes that week and if he could have avoided just two of them he would have been in the play-off which saw Vijay Singh defeat Justin Leonard and Chris DiMarco.