Field in focus - Irish Open

Ahead of this week's Irish Open, europeantour.com takes a closer look at the field competing at Fota Island Resort for the first time since 2002...<br /><br /><strong>156 players <br />
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74 European Tour winners with 254 European Tour victories between them<br />
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6 Major Champions who have 10 Major victories between them</strong><br />Darren Clarke<br />Padraig Harrington<br />Paul Lawrie<br />Rory McIlroy<br />Graeme McDowell<br />José María Olazábal<br /><br /><strong>3 European Tour Number Ones </strong><br />Padraig Harrington (2006)<br />Robert Karlsson (2008)<br />Rory McIlroy (2012)<br /><br /><strong>14 Ryder Cup players </strong><br /><br /><strong>2 Ryder Cup Captains </strong><br />José Maria Olazábal (2012)<br />Paul McGinley (2014)<br /><br /><strong>1 WGC winner with 2 WGC titles</strong><br />Darren Clarke<br /><br /><strong>11 former Irish Open winners competing </strong><br />José Maria Olazábal (1990)<br />Patrik Sjöland (2000)<br />Søren Hansen (2002 last time at Fota Island)<br />Brett Rumford (2004)<br />Stephen Dodd (2005)<br />Padraig Harrington (2007)<br />Richard Finch (2008)<br />Shane Lowry (2009)<br />Ross Fisher (2010)<br />Simon Dyson (2011)<br />Paul Casey (2013)<br /><br /><strong>11 of the 2014 European Tour winners competing </strong><br /><br /><strong>2 former US Amateur Champions competing </strong><br />Edoardo Molinari (2005)<br />Matthew Fitazpatrick (2013)<br /><br /><strong>19 players competing who were in last week's US Open Championship</strong>

<strong>31 players who competed in the Irish Open the last time it was played at Fota Island in 2002 </strong>

Richard Bland

Paul Casey

Darren Clarke

Stephen Dodd

David Drysdale

Simon Dyson

Darren Fichardt

Alastair Forsyth

Mark Foster

Stephen Gallacher

Ricardo Gonzalez

Richard Green

Anders Hansen

Soren Hansen

Padraig Harrington

Grégory Havret

David Higgins

Michael Hoey

David Howell

Søren Kjeldsen

Paul Lawrie

Thomas Levet

Mikael Lundberg

Graeme McDowell

Damian Mooney

Brett Rumford

Marcel Siem

Patrik Sjöland

Sam Walker

Anthony Wall

Steve Webster