This week's Amgen Irish Open sees a stellar field gathered at The K Club for one of the DP World Tour's biggest events.
We have multiple Ryder Cup, DP World Tour and PGA TOUR winners among some strong international talent and a host of rising stars.
We also have seven players who have won at least one of golf's biggest four events and can call themselves a Major Champion.
Between them, this magnificent seven have a total of 17 Majors, with one even possessing the career Grand Slam of all four.
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Here, we take a look at our Major men teeing it up in County Kildare.
Rory McIlroy
Age: 36
Major wins: 5 (2011 U.S. Open, 2012 and 2014 US PGA Championship, 2014 Open Championship, 2025 Masters Tournament)
Best Irish Open finish: Won (2016)
Where else to start than with our home hero and Grand Slam star. When McIlroy first burst onto the scene and claimed a maiden Major in record-breaking fashion at the 2011 U.S. Open it looked certain more would follow and they did as he won three more over the following three seasons. What nobody expected was that his fifth Major win would take almost 11 years to come, with his victory at this year's Masters seeing him join Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods in golf's most exclusive club.
This will be McIlroy's 16th appearance in the island of Ireland's national open and while he has a win here in 2016 and a runner-up last season, he surprisingly has just two other top tens with five missed cuts.
Brooks Koepka
Age: 35
Major wins: 5 (2017 and 2018 U.S. Open, 2018, 2019 and 2023 US PGA Championship)
Best Irish Open finish: NA
Matching McIlroy's Major tally is Koepka, who thrives on the big stage better than perhaps any golfer of his era. His total of Major victories is higher than his number of regular wins on the PGA and DP World Tours combined. In winning the 2018 U.S. Open he became the first player to successfully defend a Major title since Pádraig Harrington at The Open a decade earlier, and went on to repeat that feat at the 2018 and 2019 US PGA Championship.
Despite being a DP World Tour regular earlier in his career, this is Keopka's Irish Open debut.
Pádraig Harrington
Age: 54
Major wins: 3 (2007 and 2008 Open Championship, 2008 US PGA Championship)
Best Irish Open finish: Won (2007)
Harrington came into the 2007 season as Europe's number one and left it a Major winner as he defeated Sergio Garcia in a play-off at Carnoustie after double-bogeying his 72nd hole. In what transpired to be a golden spell of Major success for the Irishman, 12 months later Harrington battled with a wrist injury yet still finished four shots clear of Ian Poulter to retain the Claret Jug. And he did not even have to wait a month for his next Major, once again edging out Garcia, this time by two shots at the US PGA Championship.
One of Ireland's greatest ever sportspeople, Harrington this week plays his 30th consecutive Irish Open having never missed an edition since his debut in 1996. He had four top tens including two runner-up finishes in six years from 2001 before finally lifting the trophy in 2007 with a play-off win over Bradley Dredge. He also finished second in 2010 and seventh in 2012.
Danny Willett
Age: 37
Major wins: 1 (2016 Masters Tournament)
Best Irish Open finish: T3 (2014)
Willett is regarded by some as a "shock" winner of the Masters but those people quite frankly weren't paying enough attention. He drove down Magnolia Lane in 2006 off the back of finishing second on the previous season's Race to Dubai and as the Dubai Desert Classic champion and World Number 12. When he took advantage of Jordan Spieth's famous troubles at the 12th on Sunday with a cool closing 67, his place in the history books was assured.
He finised in the top ten at this event in consecutive years from 2013 to 2015, with his tie for third in 2013 his best result, and registered another top ten in 2018. His two appearances at The K Club saw him finish in a tie for 23rd in 2016 and retire with the shoulder injury that ultimately shut down his 2023 season.
Patrick Reed
Age: 35
Major wins: 1 (2018 Masters Tournament)
Best Irish Open finish: T3 NA
Reed was already a World Golf Championships winner and formidable two-time Ryder Cup player but his Major record had flattered to deceive as he arrived at Augusta in 2018. Impressive consistency in scores of 69-66-67 handed him a three-shot lead and a closing 67 saw him slip on the Green Jacket after finishing one shot clear of Rickie Fowler.
Reed is making his Irish Open debut this week at The K Club.
Francesco Molinari
Age: 42
Major wins: 1 (2018 Open Championship)
Best Irish Open finish: T7 (2007)
The Italian enjoyed a career year in 2018, realising a series of notable accomplishments with the highlight being his Claret Jug triumph at The Open Championship at Carnoustie. On top of that special 36th birthday present, he won on the PGA TOUR for the first time at Quicken Loans and held off McIlroy to win the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth before creating a piece of Ryder Cup history at Le Golf National by becoming the first European player to win all five of his matches. But there was more joy to come, that year capping off his DP World Tour season as the Race to Dubai champion.
Molinari first played at the Irish Open in 2005 during his rookie season on the DP World Tour having come through Qualifying School. He would play eight of the next ten editions, registering top tens in 2007 and 2010. Now, after a ten-year gap since his last appearance at one of the DP World Tour's most historic events, he returns to the island of Ireland's open.
Shane Lowry
Age: 38
Major wins: 1 (2019 Open Championship)
Best Irish Open finish: Won (2009)
We finish our rundown of the Major winners in the field with another home hero. After finishing in a tie for second at the 2016 U.S. Open, the Irishman made his Major breakthorugh as he claimed the Claret Jug to the delight of the crowds at The Open at Royal Portrush in 2019. Lowry had flown under the radar in the build up, but he took control with a masterful bogey-free 63 in the third round - a course record over the Dunluce Links.
This year marks Lowry's 17th consecutive appearance at the Irish Open, dating back to his sensational triumph on debut in 2009 when he became the first amateur winner of the prestigious event. He was just the third amateur winner in the history of the DP World Tour, and remains the most recent. In his last three starts in this event, he has finished no worse than a tie for 12th and will not be short of support as he builds up to another Ryder Cup appearance later this month.
