United set to reunite McIlroy with clubs

Rory McIlroy will be reunited with his missing clubs this morning after sending out an SOS to United Airlines but Ryder Cup skipper Paul McGinley played the national card, joking: "I didn’t think you could lose those on a private plane."

Told McIlroy had flown commercially with United, McGinley beamed: “This is what happens if you use American airlines. If he had gone Aer Lingus, it wouldn’t have happened.”

McIlroy flew back from the US Open via Newark to Dublin on United Airlines on Monday but was dismayed to discover that his Nike sticks were not on the carousel.