McIlroy promises to behave

FROM elation to frustration.

From euphoria to suffocation.

Eight years after he teed it up in his first Irish Open as a wide-eyed 16-year-old, the ink barely dry on his driver’s licence, Rory McIlroy returns to the Irish Open as a 24-year old megastar bearing the scars of responsibility and pressure.

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