There will be more money on Rory to make it three in a row for Northern Ireland since golf's poster-boy took Jack's advice and practiced at Olympic last week, and his high ball flight should help with those approaches to tricky greens.
Alexander is currently in Namibia, fighting extradition to the U.S. His high-profile flight and the subsequent manhunt injected some drama into the otherwise-obscure scandal over stock-option backdating.