There’ll be no time issues this time

Paul McGinley is confident Rory McIlroy’s conversion into the dominant figure in world golf also includes a new-found penchant for punctuality given his predecessor Jose Maria Olazabal’s heart-stopping moment at Medinah two years ago.

McIlroy gave his 2012 captain the collywobbles when the Irishman almost missed his tee-time for his Sunday singles match with Keegan Bradley, arriving at the Chicago country club from the team hotel in a police car with minutes to spare and avoiding a match default which would have scuppered the miracle fightback at a very early stage of the final day’s play.

“McIlroy late? It was disbelief,” Olazabal recalled.