McIlroy’s go it alone venture good news for McGinley

Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley is smart enough not to comment on the private life of his expected Gleneagles side but there was no hiding his pleasure in learning Rory McIlroy has sorted out his management affairs.

After months of denial and uncertainty McIlroy has formed his own company ’Rory McIlroy Incorporated’ and in a family-run move similar to that of Masters champion, Adam Scott.

McIlroy had split with the Andrew ‘Chubby’ Chandler’s International Sports Management (ISM) just four months after capturing the 2011 US Open. His signing with Horizon Sports Management was a huge coup for the Dublin-based outfit. But earlier this year at a Tour event in Bulgaria, Graeme McDowell, who had also left ISM for Horizon, leaked news of McIlroy’s split: “Rory’s decision is a fairly amicable break up and Rory just wants to do his own thing and surround himself with his family.”