Ryder Cup: Shane Lowry ready to take on more responsibility at Bethpage Black
Luke Donald settles on familiar-looking team but expects ‘different animal’ of a contest later this month
Ryder Cup
European Ryder Cup 2025 team profiles: The 12 players looking to beat the United States at Bethpage
From Rory McIlroy to Shane Lowry, Philip Reid looks at Luke Donald’s side as they get ready to take on the US later this month
Live Ryder Cup team announcement: No surprises as Shane Lowry confirmed on Team Europe
Matt Fitzpatrick, Jon Rahm, Sepp Straka, Ludvig Aberg and Viktor Hovland join Lowry as captain’s picks for Bethpage
Ryder Cup: Captain Keegan Bradley opts against picking himself for US team
Bradley finished ahead of three of his wildcard picks on the US points table
US Ryder Cup team announcement: Keegan Bradley confirms he won’t play in the Ryder Cup – As it happened
Bradley picks Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay, Ben Griffin, Cameron Young and Sam Burns
The Keegan Bradley situation is equal parts hilarious, confusing and just plain mad
There’s a terrible irony in the fact that any US captain would pick Bradley this time, with the one possible exception of Bradley himself
Rory McIlroy turns focus to Irish Open after disappointing Tour Championship
Northern Irish golfer targets winning a seventh European order of merit
Shane Lowry left to hope for Ryder Cup wild card as Rasmus Hojgaard secures automatic spot
Hojgaard’s British Masters showing knocked Lowry out of the automatic qualification spots
‘There was some pretty awful stuff going on’: Golf’s growing problem with fans heckling players
Bob MacIntyre among players the experience coarsening of discourse in golf
Matt Fitzpatrick holds one-shot lead as British Masters heads into final day
Rasmus Hojgaard tied 14th with a finish of 29th enough to get him on Ryder Cup team
Tour Championship: Rory McIlroy four-under after opening round in Atlanta, Shane Lowry level par
Lowry faces anxious wait to see if Rasmus Hojgaard can overtake him in European Ryder Cup standings
Ryder Cup Q&A: Will Shane Lowry make the team and when will they be announced?
Lowry currently holds the sixth slot, but it’s not a done deal, and he could yet be leap-frogged by Rasmus Hojgaard
In-form Irish pair key to team’s hopes of ending decade-long Walker Cup drought
Stuart Grehan heads for Cypress Point full of confidence after winning tournament double
Scottie Scheffler overhauls Bob MacIntyre with help from stunning chip-in in Baltimore
Danish player gave up four-shot lead where a win would have put him in automatic places
Bob MacIntyre shoots 62 to leave Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry eight off lead at BMW Championship
Holywood golfer paired with world No 1 Scottie Scheffler for first two rounds of BMW Championship in Maryland
Rory McIlroy shoots down idea of being a playing captain for Europe at a future Ryder Cup
‘I’ve been asked to do that and I’ve turned it down’ says McIlroy as he prepares for BMW Championship
Europe’s Ryder Cup class of 2025 shapes up with familiar feel for US showdown
Captain Luke Donald could be able to keep changes from victorious 2023 team to an absolute minimum at Bethpage
Tommy Fleetwood optimistic he can end always-the-bridesmaid run in PGA Tour
Shane Lowry slips from Ryder Cup automatic qualification spots
Team Europe ready to take sportswashing’s poster boy on board for Ryder Cup
The Ryder Cup had a chance to rise above the venality of golf’s grubby power game. That opportunity has been spurned
Justin Thomas looking to earn automatic Ryder Cup spot with PGA Tour run-in
Shane Lowry lone Irish hope at St Jude Championship as Rory McIlroy opts out of Memphis
Denis O’Brien-owned Camiral in Spain to host Ryder Cup in 2031
Second time biennial event has been staged in country
Shane Lowry on the Ryder Cup: ‘There are not many days go by that I don’t think about it’
Leona Maguire preparing for Women’s Open at Dundonald Links
‘It’s a player-led team in America’: Rory McIlroy weighs in on US Ryder Cup captaincy debate
Keegan Bradley poised to be player-captain at Bethpage
Malachy Clerkin: I cannot wait for Lions tour, but why does rugby always feel this need for overblown nonsense?
Beauty of a Lions tour is its unique one-moment-in-time energy – sell that instead of all the tired battleworn guff
Dates for the 2027 Ryder Cup in Adare Manor confirmed
The JP McManus-owned golf course in Limerick will host the biennial golf team event
The ‘gimme’ in golf: A short history of the contentious move referenced by Trump this week
If someone gives you a putt, then take it and say thank you, so the US president says
Plans for counselling notes to be disclosed in sexual assault trials only if court decides they are relevant
Proposals stop short of ending access to counselling notes, something campaigners had sought
Crystal ball 2025: Our team of pundits make their predictions for the sporting year
What teams will claim All-Ireland honours, can the Republic of Ireland make it out of their World Cup group, how many Irish players will make the Lions and Ryder Cup team teams?
PGA decision to pay US Ryder Cup players a fatal blow for the competition’s old ethos
Golf has given up something up that is valuable, the notion of volunteerism, offering personal time for a higher ideal
US Ryder Cup players to be paid for competing at the 2025 Ryder Cup
PGA of America approved the package despite saying ‘no players asked to be compensated’
Tiger Woods says US Ryder Cup team should be paid if funds are donated to charity
Golfer says players should get $1 million each and divvy out to charities that matter to them
Tyrrell Hatton set for Ryder Cup warm-up as LIV rebels come in from the cold
Sergio García remains suspended by the DP World Tour despite paying €1.2m in fines to rejoin the tour
Ryder Cup accused of pricing fans out of Bethpage Black due to $750 day tickets
Standard tickets for Rome last year cost around €240
Europe’s chance to retain Ryder Cup may be aided by potential Sergio Garcia return
Clarification over LIV golfers could pave the way for the Spaniard’s inclusion in Luke Donald’s team
Lack of housing in Limerick more concerning than hotel shortage for Ryder Cup - mayor
New directly elected mayor of Limerick to push for the delivery of 1,000 modular homes as part of five-year programme to be finalised this month
DP World Tour: Jon Rahm eyes fourth Spanish Open win as Shane Lowry stands as sole Irish contender
Playing in Spain brings LIV Golf-based player Rahm closer to Ryder Cup eligibility for Europe’s team next year
Jon Rahm’s DP World Tour appeal may not end before Ryder Cup, says Kinnings
European Tour CEO says there is no way to tell how long process will take, with Tyrrell Hatton also appealing against fines for joining LIV
LIV defectors Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton should be cut adrift from the Ryder Cup
European golfers aligned themselves with a repulsive regime. Could you root for them?
Keegan Bradley rides the wave to capture BMW Championship
Rory McIlroy finishes six shots off the lead, while win catapults Bradley into fourth spot in FedEx Cup race
Keegan Bradley names Brandt Snedeker second US vice-captain for Ryder Cup
The Tennessee native, a nine-time winner on the PGA Tour, joins previously-appointed former US Open champion Webb Simpson as a vice-captain on Bradley’s staff
Open diary: Tiger Woods likely to put his hat in the ring to be Ryder Cup captain at Adare Manor
Jon Rahm’s confusion with the Scottish accent; Troon accommodation prices skyrocket
Look inside: Extravagantly decorated former home of Michael Smurfit at the K Club for €4.5m
Villa Barton features imported Italian furniture and a terrace overlooking a lake
Ryder Cup door not closed on LIV defectors Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton, says European Tour chief
Guy Kinnings has taken over as chief executive of the European Tour after Keith Pelley returned to a role in his native Canada
Tyrrell Hatton to join LIV and pose more questions for Europe’s Ryder Cup team
English golfer set to make his debut in season-opening event in Mexico next weekend
Edoardo Molinari appointed Europe’s first vice captain for 2025 Ryder Cup
Italian played on a winning Europe team in 2010 and was one of Luke Donald’s vice captains during 2023 victory
Government told fast-tracked Adare bypass may miss Ryder Cup deadline
Government documents warn €150m bypass may not be ready before 2027 tournament
Sports Review 2023: Magnificent McIlroy an outstanding leader for Europe
Both on and off the course Rory McIlroy proved an inspirational leader for his team in a memorable Ryder Cup triumph over the US in Rome
Guns, slaps, jigsaws and the best 61 seconds of sport all year (the darts, obvs) - the A-to-Z of 2023
Every year is filled with heroic deeds of sporting immortality but every year is filled with spivs, chancers and ne’er-do-wells too. Here’s some of them, in all their glory.
Shane Lowry interview: ‘Winning an Olympic gold medal would be something else’
Offaly golfer believes if his putter behaves he can have a ‘very good year’ on the PGA Tour
Jon Rahm’s LIV move the latest reminder that golf is not big enough to be fighting among itself for audiences
Rahm’s defection won’t bring a big slice of the viewing public with him - the people who watch golf have lost an interesting player to a world they’ll never visit
Rory McIlroy expects Ryder Cup changes after Jon Rahm’s LIV switch
Irish golfer says he is disappointed Rahm has gone but merger in June ‘legitimised’ LIV
Luke Donald reappointed European Ryder Cup captain for 2025 contest in New York
Englishman is the first captain since Bernard Gallacher to retain the captaincy
Front row for the Ryder Cup at Adare Manor six-bed for €2.25m
B1-rated home with six bedrooms and seven bathrooms situated in an exclusive enclave in Adare Manor for €2.25m
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