Ryder Cup captain McGinley relishing return to Oak Hill for US PGA

Paul McGinley has received an invitation to contest this year’s PGA Championship where fellow Irishman Rory McIlroy will defend the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy.

While it is now customary for the US PGA, as organisers of both the Ryder Cup and PGA Championship, to offer rival captains an invite, McGinley is delighted to be heading back to Oak Hill for a first time in a decade, where he and fellow Irishman Phillip Walton helped deliver Europe the 1995 Ryder Cup. It will also be the Dubliner’s first PGA Championship since 2007.

“I knew when I became Ryder Cup captain I would receive an invitation to compete in the PGA Championship but then it was nice when the official invitation arrived in the mail,” said McGinley.