As we reported last week, the European Tour has upped the prize money for the 2016 Irish Open, which will be held at The K Club. Dubai Duty Free and the Rory Foundation have also extended their agreement to back the event for another three years, boosting the prize money by 60 percent from €2.5m to €4m.
When John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote "With a Little Help from My Friends" they probably never have imagined it would become one of the biggest sellers of all time. Now, after a four-year desert trek without a title sponsor, it turns out that the combination of Rory McIlroy, The Irish Open and his superstar pals was a heady enough cocktail to attract Dubai Duty Free as title sponsors for what could become one of European Tour's greatest hits.
American milk cartons often features pleas for information about tragic cases of child abduction — mysterious tales of disappearances that would soften even the hardest of hearts. What then, one wonders, has become of the curly haired wonder-kind who wowed the world with his golf when he burst on the scene as an amateur and won the Silver Medal in the Open at Carnoustie in 2007?
