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Irish Independent
19-05-2025
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- Irish Independent
Indo Sport podcast: Paul McGinley on Scheffler's statement, Rory's weird week and 'one dimensional' Bryson
Today at 12:27 Joe is joined by Paul McGinley to look back on Scottie Scheffler's triumph at the US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow.
Times
13-05-2025
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- Times
Ten majors? A grand slam this year? No, just let Rory McIlroy be
The creases had barely dropped out of Rory McIlroy's Green Jacket when predictions began to rain on his parade. Brad Faxon had him racing to ten majors, when it had taken him 15 seasons to win five; Paul McGinley speculated that he might add three more this year, to make it a calendar grand slam. And they meant well, these gentlemen. McGinley even said his bit with a smile as if acknowledging how outlandish such an outcome would be. But even so. McIlroy did win two majors in 2014, but played another 39 before winning his next, and not even Tiger Woods swept the board in a single campaign. He is credited with the 'Tiger Slam', the last three majors of 2000 and the first
Times
10-05-2025
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- Times
The unknown coach who guided Rory McIlroy from child prodigy to grand slam
No golfer since Tiger Woods has been more celebrated than Rory McIlroy and yet his lifelong coach remains a figure of mystery who could walk into most clubhouses unrecognised. Just ask Padraig Harrington, the three-times major champion who beat Michael Bannon in a play-off at the Irish Professional Championship in 1998. 'He was a club pro with a decent name but I wouldn't have known him [personally] at that stage. I'd know him more now — if anybody does. I don't know if anybody knows him,' Harrington says. Fellow Irishman and former Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley, who regularly sees Bannon at tournaments while working as a television analyst, sings from a similar hymn book. 'He's a quiet man, very unassuming, very under the radar;
Daily Record
06-05-2025
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- Daily Record
Ryder Cup test in hostile Bethpage 'biggest challenge an away team has ever faced'
Paul McGinley insists Luke Donald's side will need characters to face an incredible and challenging atmosphere Paul McGinley reckons Europe face their biggest-ever Ryder Cup test in hostile Bethpage. The 2014 winning captain says Luke Donald's golf side will need characters to face an incredible and highly-challenging atmosphere when they get to New York in September. McGinley says the hot reaction from the United States-backing home support will test the visitors to the extreme limit. Donald led the team to success in Rome in 2023, but the Irishman said: 'My view was that the challenge that we're going to face over in Bethpage is probably the biggest challenge an away team has ever faced on either side. "That atmosphere is going to be really difficult to play in. Going away from home with 80 per cent of the crowd against you, Americans with their tails up on an American-tailored golf course. They've got home advantage,and it is a very difficult situation. 'Our players have to perform in a very hostile environment, which is a difficult thing to do. I played away from home in Detroit 2010. "I have one experience of it. Luke was my partner actually in his first Ryder Cup. "And playing when 80 per cent of the crowd are pulling against you is a difficult scenario, it requires deep concentration and it requires a bit of an edge in your personality. So we are looking for personnel who might have that edge. 'We are looking at their psyche for sure. You can have all the stats you want because our stats guys do amazing stuff now, but personality is going to be a big deal. "Who's performed in a hostile environment? Who stands up to be counted when the odds are not quite going for you? Personality traits are going to be important. Experience is going to be important.' The experience of Donald will be vital and, speaking to Sportsboom, McGinley continued: 'I was obviously involved with that decision to bring him back. The perception is that we nail the Ryder Cup and America don't. "What we do is win at home. And what American nail is winning at home. Both teams have been poor on the road. 'The Ryder Cups in the last 10 years have been pretty much one-sided with the home team winning. We haven't won away from home now since Medinah. And that was a miracle. "Before that it was eight years before that at Oakland Hills in Detroit, and I was on that team. So away matches are very difficult, much more difficult than winning at home. 'The template that works at home doesn't necessarily transfer, so we have to cultivate a new template to tackle these away matches and not just take for granted that whatever we did in the home match is going to work again, whether that be pairings, whether that be personnel, whether that be approach. 'For me the view is to create a new template away from home and the first roll of the dice with that was to put a captain in who had captained before, and who captained successfully. "So that we're not training in a new captain and dealing with all the differences of being away from home. So, bringing an ex-captain in who's been there was the first roll of the dice of doing something different. 'Luke is the captain. My job is not to tell him what to do, my job is to expand his thinking and make sure that everything is considered before decisions are made. "But ultimately, it'll be his decision. From what he said already publicly and what he has said privately, they're the kind of things that he's looking at.'
Irish Daily Mirror
25-04-2025
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- Irish Daily Mirror
Paul McGinley makes Tiger Woods comparison on competitive golf return
Irish golf legend Paul McGinley is set to participate in the Legends Tour in Barbados, but he doesn't have high hopes of competing for a title. After hanging up his clubs on the European Tour, the Ryder Cup hero - who led Team Europe to triumph in 2014 with Rory McIlroy - has become a respected pundit. But now, he's gearing up to swing into action once more at the Legends Tour event in Barbados, hosted by none other than ex-Masters champ Ian Woosnam. However, McGinley doesn't believe that he will be able to challenge for a title, given the time he has taken away from the game, using Tiger Woods' similar playing time as of late as an example. He told BBC Sport Scotland: "I played two tournaments last year, but I still love to play golf. "I just have so many other things going on and that's taking me away from playing," reports Belfast Live. He added: "My expectations are not that high because you just don't turn up and contend. "Tiger Woods, the best that we've ever seen, tried to play nothing but the majors two years ago and even he struggled. We're lucky on the Legends Tour. "Money is being thrown around the top level of golf like confetti. The Saudis have created a false economy, and the players are benefiting." McGinley has been quite vocal about LIV Golf, a rival to the PGA Tour, since its inception. While many have criticised the tour, the Irish star believes there are some aspects of their rules that can be learned from. Specifically, McGinley appreciates how LIV mandates that every player signed to the tour is contractually obligated to participate in each of their events. On the PGA Tour, signature events have been introduced, and stars are expected to skip very few, if any, of these tournaments or risk losing their Player Impact Program (PIP) bonus money. However, this was relaxed from the 2024 season, and McGinley, who served on the DP World Tour's board until 2023, feels that LIV are doing things correctly by obligating their stars to play in every event and tying them down to a contract. He told Sky Sports: "When it comes to big decisions on the boards, the players [on the PGA Tour] may have ultimate control. I think those two dynamics make it really difficult to push the game forward. "It's one of the things that I think LIV have got right." He added: "I'm not saying pay the players less, but pay them differently. "If they're contracted, and you know what you're selling, then it's a whole different conversation from the business of golf if the administration goes out to a sponsor and says, 'We would like you to sponsor for this amount of money, and this is who we will give you in year one, this is who we will give you in year two, etc'."
