I'm sure there was an educational angle to the trips (I think one was to the Ulster Museum) but it was the fun and banter I had with my friends I rem….

As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of who treat me as one of their own, no matter what….

In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it la….

My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do th….

It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Manag….

I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least ….

If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder C….

Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nel….

I was very excited when I first started to travel so much. In fact, I was amazed that people were paying me to travel to play the game I loved..

It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found the projects about World War Two fascinating -….

Because I lived so close to the school and walked there every day, I used to enjoy the school bus trips..

Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan..

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could p….

In all honesty, I never actually did anything wrong (in my eyes, at least) at school or misbehaved in any big way. If it was anything, it was probabl….

Everything is firing on all cylinders for me..

I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all..

The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends..

My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little….

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots I am also….

I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the Ameri….

I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future..