McIlroy met with the media Wednesday in New Orleans ahead of his first tournament since capturing the career Grand Slam.

Rory McIlroy returned to Northern Ireland this week for a homecoming after his Masters victory, but his wife Erica Stoll was not seen with him and their daughter Poppy

The history of Northern Ireland's troubles goes back basically as far as you want it to, but its origins hundreds of years ago shouldn't overshadow the fact that it's an intensely modern conflict that still rages even 27 years after the signing of the Good Friday peace accords in 1998.