Irish Open: Rory McIlroy no-show 'a noteworthy issue says Paul McGinley

Irish Open: Rory McIlroy no-show 'a noteworthy issue says Paul McGinley 

Irish Open host Paul McGinley says Rory McIlroy's choice not to play in the current year's occasion is "a noteworthy issue".

The 2014 European Ryder Cup commander is the host this year at Lahinch however says the occasion will battle to pull in the same number of star names as it has before.

While the world number four, 29, will miss, Ian Poulter is the most recent player to focus on the 4-7 July occasion.

"It was (a failure) yet this is something we're going to see a greater amount of going ahead," said McGinley.

"The difficulties the players have on the world calendar are tremendous. The measure of cash they play for around the globe is gigantic and the center is especially going to be on significant titles. I believe it's only a typical issue.

"He (McIlroy) isn't the just one, Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka just as Tiger Woods - see his calendar directly through his profession - they don't play an immense sum and they characterize everything around the real titles."

McIlroy is skirting his national open to concentrate on his arrangements for The Open at Royal Portrush a fortnight later.

Various prominent players will anyway head out toward the west of Ireland during the current year's Irish Open, including significant victors Louis Oosthuizen, Danny Willett and Padraig Harrington.

In any case, McGinley says the competition can never again hope to draw in the majority of the huge names as it did during the 1980s.

"The times of old when Seve, Faldo, Langer, Woosie and all the top players played in an Irish Open, those days are gone," he included.

"Any competition around the globe, even on the PGA Tour, outside the majors, the WGC occasions and the Players (Championship), on the off chance that you have a few or four of the enormous names, at that point you fit around the folks who are top 50 on the planet around that - it's a generally amazing field.

"That is what we're on course to do and ideally we will arrive, we're quite near it right now."