McIlroy: Fans would make Open Championship at Portrush a success

Irish golf fans would ensure an Open Championship return to Royal Portrush was a success, Rory McIlroy has insisted.

Fresh from celebrating the triumph of Ireland’s latest major winner Darren Clarke, who won the Open in Sandwich at the weekend, McIlroy said he could detect a real momentum building in the campaign to see the tournament staged in his homeland, for only the second time in its history.