Watch the birdies in the North

Take in a round of golf in Rory McIlroy's back garden, writes Dermot Bolger.

Malone Golf Club: meanders gracefully across 330 acres.

Every year literary pilgrims go in search of the spirit of C S Lewis, the Belfast-born author of the Narnia chronicles, by sitting in The Eagle and Child pub in St Giles Street in Oxford. Here, Lewis famously spent evenings with friends and fellow writers such as JRR Tolkien, who called themselves The Inklings.

But in addition to this Oxford world with which he is most associated, Lewis also enjoyed what he termed ...