Golf: Irish pair seeks World Cup win

HAINAN: Major winners Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell are hoping their chemistry will produce a winning formula for Ireland at the World Cup teeing off in southern China today. The pair is seeking to go one better in the two-man team event after finishing joint runners-up two years ago behind Italian brothers Francesco and Edoardo Molinari, who are defending their title on Hainan Island. “It’s a partnership that has worked well in the past and I think we have a very good chemistry on and off the course,” said world number two McIlroy. The Ryder Cup partners are favourites to win the tournament, which includes four-ball and foursomes play.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 24^th, 2011.