The Open Plan

I have won the US Open. I would like to win the British Open.

you have success, it makes me determined to go on and achieve

more. If the stars Earline, I will be good enough to win the British

Open. -- a line. As long as I practise and stay focused, I am in

Welcome to Sandwich. Only two Irishmen have won the British Open.

Could we have the third added this year? Northern Ireland has two

outstanding candidates. They are both in the world's top 10 and have

won a major championships within the last year. Walwyn McIlroy and

Graeme McDowell. -- Rory McIlroy. First to Rory, who arrived here as

a 22-year-old, have rapidly on the price. Since he lifted that trophy

just outside Washington last month, it has been a whirlwind few weeks.

This guy is the best player in the I have seen my face on all the

I need to speak to mum. Try and win the house -- try and ring up the

We met a very nice policeman from Ireland. He ended up taking me in

I am tired, but it will be nice to get a bit of sleep. I have got

another bit to do and then I will Let us get it back to where it

belongs for the second year in a It is nice to be home. It doesn't

Come on. Here! Get up, get up! I can't believe I have created so

much of bars. -- so much of a buzz. It has been nice to go home and let

it all sink in. It has been great. I'm really looking forward to

getting back out on the golf course now. I am excited about this week.

It feels as if I am playing really well. I am excited to get back and

compete. It is great. Everyone is still really interested. Rory's

Diaby has been a fall, including two visits to the Royal Box at

Wimbledon. And a chat with Piers Morgan. A trip to Stormont and a

return to his old school. This is something I am going to have to

deal with, but it is nice to have the support. The expectation is a

big thing, so I just have to go out and play. More media people want

more from him and our job is to get as many of those requests done as

we can. People want to know he's thoughts on various things. It's

also to give him a chance to be a 22-year-old and have time with his

family and friends. Rory is receiving the kind of high reserved

for Tiger Woods. His downfall has left a gap and many believe that

Rory is the one to fill it. Tiger Woods has got 14 majors and I have

only got one. I had prepared well and played some practice rounds a

last week. I met expectations are high. I have high expectations of

myself off. I know I can come here and win. Whether it's by eight

shots again, I am not sure. I need And will reap he's off tomorrow

morning at about 9:10am. His career has been monitored by Jack Nicklaus,

a winner of 18 majors. I caught up with him, he told me about his

growing admiration for the young man. I met him after the US Open. I

asked him what he learnt from a winning? -- winning? It's time to

figure out the best way to win. He is now the US Open champion. He is

basically the top player in the world. He may not be ranked there,

but he is there. If you take that responsibility, now you have got

youth and people and the public looking up to you. You have to

think about how you go about being the player you are an been a role-

model for young kids to come along. I'm sure he can handle that really

well and the pressure. But the pressure is what we live for. I

told him you want pressure on you all the time. There is no fun the

finishing 20th on the 18th green. You want the pressure of coming

down to the 18th hole with a chance of winning all the time. You want

people to say, that is our man. I hope Rory goes that way because he

is great for the game of golf. We need a young blood in the game and

he is a breath of fresh air. -- young blood. One man who knows

about the pressure of playing in a major air is Graeme McDowell. He

said the last year has been the most incredible of his life. He won

the US Open, was in the Ryder cup and one even beat Tiger Woods. He

now resides in America and that is where we caught up with him.

Florida is the adopted home for Graeme McDowell. He has been based

in Orlando for the last six years and it has proved to be the perfect

location for him. This is my dry- cleaning! He is as busy off the

course as he he's on it. He is getting ready to move house. Before

I moved into the new place I will give this garage a good clear-out.

A lot of my staff will probably go to one of the junior golf clubs, or

I may ship some of it homes. -- home. There has been a lot of stuff

coming through the door over the past couple of years. It is just

crazy. This need a really good clear-out and I'm looking forward

to moving into the new place. This was a lot of fun here. The Ryder

cup motif is on it. UK and probably we around 18 holes in 90 minutes.

Myself and Rory have joked about playing the Ryder Cup together. We

had the wigs on and it was great fun. I always joked that if I could

slipstream Rory for a few years I would be happy. Little did I know

that I would be the first one out of the two of us to win a major

championship. And doing so changed his life for ever. Graeme is one of

the most in-demand players in the Trying to stretch my legs out a

This wasn't just a round of golf with his friends. It was an

official function as a 2010 US Open champion. I feel a kind answered a

lot of questions in the last few months, the last year. You imagined

you reach one of the greatest peaks and goals in your career. I feel as

though I have backed it up substantially. You have got 280 to

the front. 210-that got there. Helping him handle the added stress

of the last year is the man who has probably spent more time with him

than anybody else. It is his caddy, Kenney. He is an integral part of

my team. One of the most important members. He sees every shot and how

I react to them. He sees how I prepare and how we get ready. He is

as close to me as anybody. He gives me the neutral, unbiased opinion on

things. It has been an amazing year. It seems to have flown by. You know,

Graeme McDowell, the US Open champion. Hi, nice to meet you.

Everything that goes along, the media commitments, everything that

goes along with being a major champion. I have to make sure I

prioritise and get my work done and that I am ready. Another visit is

This is not my playlist, I promise! I feel very lucky to be doing the

job we are doing. This is a great world in which we live it. I get to

fly around the world on a jet every now and again and play golf on the

best golf courses. I am very fortunate. I love what I do. I

certainly don't feel like I take it for granted. So many guys live in

Orlando. We get together and we share the Transport and it really

makes life easy. Graeme's new house will be completed very soon. This

is my game room. It will be a bar area and I will have raised snooker

table here in the corner, and a William NICE bar in the corner. You

know, entertainment. He has been overseeing the project for Breaux

Greer. -- 4-over a year. When they ask me, I thought, you know, I had

a few tournaments but... A few months later, the US Open. I

thought, I will have to redesign this area. The suitcase comes in

through here. It comes in through my main laundry area. We will have

a little island here whether suitcase can go on to it and

straight into the laundry. This will be my storage area because

packing and unpacking is a huge part of my life and I want to have

a customer area that makes that easier. It will be a great room and

a very important room. Good to hear you do your laundry! I do it every

now and again. It is a Florida house so it is very much about the

outdoors. A nice space in the corner where I would like to have a

half basketball court with a tube. -- with a hoop. My mum and dad will

probably be out here for around eight weeks of the year. Part of

her lifestyle now is two or three warm holidays a year. Stress is a

big part of my life and my mum is a mum's mum. She never stops. When

she comes to Orlando, she lays out by the pool and catch of the few

rays. And it is so good for her. -- and catches a few rays. She will be

making regular visits out here and it is so good for a health. Port

Rush will always be home for me. No doubt about it. Family, friends.

Six years ago, when I bought my first home here, it was somewhere I

could come and it is the same now. Somewhere to practise and to base

myself. My love of the place has grown and I have invested more in

myself with my dream home. It is not about starting to settle down,

is it? No. I am a single man but rare and getting on. I am 31 years

old. I am sure my family and my manager would like to see me settle

down. It is great. I am enjoying my life now. I have been so busy and I

have thrown myself into my career over the last five, six years. You

cannot be nomadic and spend your life on an aeroplane. You cannot

just have a good time. You have to settle down and have a bit of

balance in the world. But for now, his focus is on winning golf's

biggest prize. I have won the US Open. I would love to win v British

Open. It would be great for the home fans and on a home golf course.

I have been there at a few of the Opens. But I am excited and I

always believe I am good enough to win the British Open if the stars a

line and you hold your putt at the right time. In fact, the winner in

2003 lives just up there. I will certainly be asking them to show me

the way around St Georges. He has been practising here since Monday,

unlike Rory, who left a little later and decided to fine-tune his

preparation at home in Northern Ireland. And why do not, when you

have got your own practice facility in your own back garden. The lawns

are manicured to absolute perfection. It is built and

maintained to the standard of a Championship course. And he employs

one full-time and one part-time greenkeeper. This is the driver t

box. I have got another just up here. The other side of the hedge

is the other one. And I have got two greens at 125, one at 150, one

at 185 and one and 200. I can hit in different directions and

different wind directions as well. It is nice to be able to do that. I

have got this bunker here, so again, I have got bunkers you would find

in America. Physically it is everything I need. Every golfer's

dream. Darren Clarke was here last night for the first time. He loved

it. It is great. Not too bad. The weather is turning a bit. See you

later. As you can see, it's a bit deeper than usual. But higher will

be spending a lot of time in it over the next few days leading up

to the Open. -- but I will. Are you going to show us? In yes. It really

is a fantastic facility. Rory mention Darren Clarke, and he has

the third representative from Northern Ireland in the Open. He

has come close to winning before. Second in 1997 and third in 2001.

It is good to be back here again. But the Open is the best tournament.

The course is fantastic. Not as much rough as before. But higher

unsure if we get a bit of breeze like this it will be great. -- but

I am sure. I want to try and get back in and compete. I was probably

trying a bit too hard previously to back up my win. With the others

playing well, I want to try to get myself in there. My game is good

enough, I think, to win one. In terms of your own game, I believe I

can get up there and win one. If I didn't think that, I would not be

here. I have not managed to dig anything out of it yet. I should be

able to get in and practice. But he is already OK with his win and the

US Open. He will get better and better. It is a proud time for golf

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 55 seconds

back home? It is great, the way I feel a bit strange. Can you stand

there? The first name to receive this honorary degree, Graeme was

the first name. He has had an incredible impact on his sport. He

is somebody who has excelled. And you cannot underestimate the impact

it will have on the sport and on tourism -- tourism. His courage to

take on the world and beat it is un matched -- is matched by his

humility. Those tournaments, it doesn't mean a thing now. This is

the proudest day of my life. I have always wanted to see him get his

degree and now he has his very own. When he went to Queen's in Belfast,

I was so proud. After a year, he decided to go off and get a sports

scholarship. He said, I will come back home and go back. Here we are

today, 10 years down the line, and he has made me very proud.

Definitely one of my proudest moments today, along with my MBE.

It is a very exciting day. I never had the chance to graduate from

college. Much to my mother's disappointment! Sue really wanted

to always come to a graduation ceremony. -- she wanted. It is a

wonderful day for me. I am not a real doctor. I can't be writing

prescriptions or anything like that. It is an honorary title. I don't

think I will be using the title doctor in any correspondence.

looked fantastic. But can he added the title of Open champion to his

CV? We will find out over the next four days, and you won't miss a