Rory McIlroy may have completed golf’s grand slam, with a green jacket in his wardrobe at long last after April’s Masters triumph, but Team Europe’s talisman is still as hungry as ever ahead of the Ryder Cup in New York, insists Paul McGinley.
McGinley, who captained Europe to victory at Gleneagles in 2014, was hired last year as a strategic adviser to current captain Luke Donald, and spent the past week among the players on their scouting mission around Bethpage Black, the course on Long Island which will stage this year’s showpiece.