Ryder Cup 'not that important' for McIlroy

Rory McIlroy and Colin Montgomerie, playing partners the next two days at The 3 Irish Open, today expressed totally opposite views about next year's Ryder Cup.

If European captain Montgomerie wanted to hear that the 20-year-old was already bubbling with excitement about the possibility of winning his first cap at Celtic Manor, then he could not have been more wrong.