Seamus O'Connor, a former captain at Holywood Golf Club, said McIlroy's career grand slam was "a long time coming - but we expected it to come".
The orders also provide a glimpse into the president's mindset.Mr Brinkley compared Trump's quest to rename the Gulf of Mexico to a move by Franklin D Roosevelt almost 90 years ago: after he defeated Herbert Hoover, Roosevelt christened the newly constructed dam over the Colorado River as the Boulder Dam - not the Hoover Dam as it had previously been known, in an effort to deny his rival the honour.
"That takes a mighty amount of wild-eyed, self-confidence and a nothing-to-lose attitude," he said of both presidents.Part of Trump's confidence stems from having outmanoeuvred his political foes, evaded any punitive measures in his myriad legal battles and even escaping an assassin's bullet, Mr Brinkley said.A second term has also given Trump - who was convicted as a felon in New York last year - a chance to reshape his legacy.
The president has described himself as a victim of an overzealous justice department and of his political enemies.On day one, he signed an order directing his attorney general to investigate the actions of federal agencies under the previous administration, including the justice department's prosecution of people involved in the Capitol riot.
Mr Brinkley said Trump wants his name to "radiate for the ages" - "and he's achieved that," the historian continued. "He's a force of nature and he's defied political laws of gravity."
Former administration officials say Trump's slew of first-week executive orders and actions signal his team has returned considerably more prepared than when they first arrived in January 2017., professor Dame Sally Davies spoke of a "worrying" meeting chaired by then-environment secretary Mr Gove who "clearly had not been briefed".
“If it was not so important it would be a farce," she said.Ms Sturgess died in July 2018 after she was exposed to the chemical weapon in a discarded perfume bottle.
An email chain, shown to the inquiry into her death on Monday, was started when Dame Sally contacted then-cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood on 15 March, 2018, days after the Skripals were poisoned.The email said that in a meeting Mr Gove "did not accept" that, "while the national role for decontamination is to give guidance and check plans, it is for the local authority, in partnership with local actors and Defra to implement and deliver".