Sometimes, less is more

THIS is the week of which European Tour chief executive George O’Grady dare not dream, even as recently as two months ago.

Sitting in the boardroom of his Tour’s headquarters at Wentworth as the first round of the BMW PGA Championship got under way back in May, O’Grady predicted another successful Irish Open but he refused to consider the possibility that his members would still be in possession of all four major titles, let alone that two of them would be Irish.

“I think the Irish Open is going to be terrific,” said O’Grady. “Because who knows who is going to the US Open and The Open.