When the world's No. 1 golfer, and sports' most visible Northern Irishman, Rory McIlroy, brought his allegiances for the 2016 Rio Olympics -- the first to include golf since St. Louis in 1904 -- into question after years of playing under the Irish flag, wounds long thought healed were reopened. But when picking a country to play for, is the onus on the athlete to represent us or themselves?
