McGinley unhappy with missing stars

SERGIO GARCIA is the only member of the world’s top ten golfers committed to next month’s World Cup at Villamoura in Portugal’s Algarve.

And Paul McGinley described as “a shame” the absence of Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Phil Mickelson, Retief Goosen and so on from an event that has stood the test of time since the early 50s.

However, McGinley, at Adare Manor Golf Resort in Co Limerick to conduct a clinic on behalf of Allianz, one of his sponsors, admitted that he wasn’t entirely surprised.