Fancy taking on some Americans in the plush surroundings of the luxury Lough Erne Resort in April? The inaugural King’s Cup, will see a 16-man team representing the United States take on an Irish team at the Co Fermanagh resort from April 27-29.

The Lough Erne Resort is confident it will host the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open next year.

Rory McIlroy is clearly the host with the most after his decision to support the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open for another three years helped boost the prize fund by 60 percent to €4 million — the biggest in the event’s history.
 

Athlone teenager Sean Doyle took another giant step forward in his career when he shot a second successive 72 to win the Faldo Series Ireland Championship by two strokes at Lough Erne.

Forrest Little's Julie McCarthy, Athlone's Sean Doyle and Carton House's Darragh Flynn lead the way after the opening rounds of the 36-hole Faldo Ireland Championships at the Lough Erne Resort in Enniskillen.

Dun Laoghaire's Ted Collins begins his defence of the Faldo Series Ireland Championship at Lough Erne Resort in County Fermanagh on Tuesday.

If you're hoping to follow in the footsteps of Rory McIlroy and Stephanie Meadow and make your mark on the Faldo Series it's crucial to enter. And while this year's Faldo Series Ireland Championship at Lough Erne is nearly two months away, entries close this Friday, March 6.

It's time for the annual "debate" over the Golf Digest Top 100 rankings and while there will be many who disagree with the order, it has to be said that the readers had a big input this time with 80 golfers from an entry of 2,628 having their views heard.

Royal County Down has been ranked No 1 in Golf World's latest ranking of the Top-100 courses in Great Britain and Ireland.

The announcement of the 2015 Irish Open for Royal County Down is understandable but with the 2017 event handed to  Lough Erne, a resort in the hands of administrators KPMG since 2011, political clout and the influence of Rory McIlroy are more than a little in evidence.

A week might be a long time in politics but when it comes to future of The Irish Open — and a possible Northern Ireland staging of the British Open — changes are coming equally thick and fast.

Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson revealed yesterday that talks to bring the British Open back to Northern Ireland -  are now "well past the early stages."