All the background and event history going into this week's Irish Open at Royal County Down with home stars Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry in the field.
Home stars Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry top the entries for the Irish Open which starts at Royal County Down on ThursdaySweden's Vincent Norrman will defend the title after his closing 65 clinched a one-stroke victory at the K Club last year.
In addition, the BBC Sport website will have live text commentary of the weekend's play at Royal County Down.Denmark's Soren Kjdeldsen, who is among this week's entries, won the event at Royal County Down in 2015 when McIlroy was tournament host but missed the halfway cut by four shots after rounds of 80 and 71.
The Newcastle club was founded in 1889 by a group of what was described as a "group of influential business and professional men from Belfast" and was granted its royal status by King Edward VII in 1908. "On a clear spring day, with Dundrum Bay to the east, the Mountains of Mourne to the south and gorse-covered dunes in golden bloom, there is no lovelier place in golf," stated the Golf Digest appraisal.
With the arrival of a fully fledged European Tour still over two decades away, financial troubles in the Golfing Union of Ireland meant the Irish Open wasn't played in 1951 and 1952 and while it did resume a year later at Eric Brown won at Belvoir Park, the tournament then found itself mothballed for 22 years.
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