Byline: KARL Mac-GINTY

TEENAGE hero Rory McIlroy spearheaded Ireland's charge to the top of the leaderboard on the first day of The Grey Goose Cup (European Nations Championship) at Sotogrande on the Costa del Sol yesterday, WRITES KARL Mac-GINTY.

The Holywood starlet shot six birdies in a 3-under par 69 that left him just one stroke off the pace set by Dane Peter Baunsoe in the individual competition but helped lift the Irish to the head of the field in the 72-hole event formerly ...