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.
 

Our sources in Doonbeg tells us that the Trump organisation has started taking tough decisions with one of the first announcements the likely introduction of a three-day week for staff over the winter months.

It didn't take long for Donald Trump to get the lawyers involved at Doonbeg. According to the Irish Examiner's Fiachra Ó Cionnaith, Trump "has threatened to hold Clare County Council responsible for any income lost as a result of 'obstruction' of his efforts to carry out vital remedial works at his west Clare golf course.

Donald Trump would like to use all the dunes at Doonbeg and create the course that Greg Norman couldn't build because of environmental restrictions. What do you think?

Less than a year after "blowing up" Doral's Blue Monster to create what a radically different challenge for world's elite in this week's WGC-Cadillac Championship, Donald Trump is considering a complete rebuild of Doonbeg that could put him on another environmental collision course.