McGinley prefers to perform under pressure

A PRESSURE that I enjoy. hat’s the excited reaction of Paul McGinley to the coming three tournaments that will decide whether he again lines out for Europe against the US in the Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills next month.

As he strolled down the sixth fairway during a practice round at Whistling Straits yesterday, prior to his fifth appearance in the US PGA Championship, the 37-year-old Dubliner spoke of his hopes and ambitions for the PGA, followed by next week’s WGC-NEC Championship and the BMW International in Munich at the end of August.

McGinley has been telling us all year about how well he had been playing but wasn’t putting the scores together. That seems to have taken an upward turn, as evidenced by his second place finish in last week’s Dutch Open, and he is facing the run-in to the Ryder Cup with confidence.