R & A

Schauffele, who will return the Claret Jug to the R&A at the start of the week at Royal Portrush, is hoping to "use that to my advantage".

Newly crowned Masters champion Rory McIlroy will have "unfinished business" when the Open Championship returns to Royal Portrush this summer, says R&A chief executive Mark Darbon.

Darbon also reaffirmed the R&A's desire to take the Open outside the United Kingdom for the first time, to Portmarnock in Dublin.

"Through our research it's clear that in Great Britain and Ireland there are some specific concerns around the system," Grant Moir, the R&A's executive director of governance told BBC Sport.

For the R&A to return The Open to St Andrews to the regular slot of years ending in a 5 or 0, as it had had since 1990, it would have had to host either just three years after it last did so - or seven.