Rory McIlroy may face extra LIV Golf disruption at subsequent yr’s Horizon Irish Open because the insurgent tour plans to return to the Centurion Membership because the Holywood star headlines the DP World Tour occasion at The Okay Membership.
According to sources, the Saudi-backed league is finalising its 14-event 2023 schedule with a return to the Hertfordshire venue scheduled for Irish Open week, adopted by a possible new occasion at Valderrama.
LIV Golf is in talks with 1997 Ryder Cup venue Valderrama with a suggestion to the European circuit to share its Andalucia Masters venue more likely to be rejected.
McIlroy has been the face of the established order in battling LIV Golf and admitted he'll discover it “laborious to abdomen” seeing 19 LIV gamers in motion at Wentworth on this week’s BMW PGA.
The sector will even characteristic former Ryder Cup participant Oliver Wilson (41), who overcame Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson to assert an emotional one-shot win within the Made in HimmerLand in Denmark. Jonathan Caldwell tied for 52nd on six-under after a 69 with Paul Dunne up only one spot within the Race to Dubai to 222nd in his battle to avoid wasting his card after a 73 left him tied 73rd on two-over.
On the Problem Tour, Holywood teenager Tom McKibbin took one other large step in the direction of securing promotion to the DP World Tour when he tied for fourth within the B-NL Problem Trophy in Belgium.
The Newtownabbey star (19) closed with a four-under 68 to complete simply three pictures behind Germany’s Alexandre Knapp on 17-under at Hulencourt to maneuver up 5 locations to thirteenth within the Street to Mallorca standings with the highest 20 awarded playing cards for the principle tour.
Carton Home claimed the lads’s title for the second time in three years on the AIG Males’s and Girls’s Senior Cup Finals at Tramore.
They proved too robust for nine-hole Cushendall, whose run to the ultimate was a large achievement for a membership with no person within the staff higher than a two-handicap.