Formula 3 Driver (2020), Christian Lester. Cricket Holywood Cricket Club was formed at Kinnegar in 1881. It moved to Belfast Road in 1885 and then to the present ground at Seapark Road in 1996. Football Holywood F.C. is a Northern Irish intermediate football club playing in Division 1B of the Northern Amateur Football League. GAA St. Paul's Gaelic Football Club was founded in 1979 as an amalgamation of the Holywood, Bangor, and Newtownards clubs. Golf Holywood Golf Club, founded in 1904 is where 2011 US Open, 2012 US PGA, The Open 2014, and 2014 US PGA champion Rory McIlroy learned his golf, and he still calls it his home course. Nearby Craigavad is the home of the Royal Belfast Golf Club, the oldest in Ireland, dating from 1881. The club's present course was designed by architect Harry Colt in 1926. Notable people Mark Adair, former cricketer for Warwickshire County Cricket Club; former Sullivan Upper School pupil Desmond Boal, QC, leading Northern Ireland barrister and former Stormont MP, resided in Holywood Charles Brett, architectural historian, born in Holywood Fr. Stephen Brown, SJ, writer, librarian, founder of the Central Catholic Library (in Dublin), was born in Holywood Barbara Callcott, Australian television personality, born in Holywood Darren Cave, played rugby for Ulster Rugby and helped Ireland Under-20 win the Six Nations Grand Slam in 2007 Robert Cunningham (died 1637) first Presbyterian minister Jamie Dornan, actor, model Hubert Dunn, judge and author of a book on Francis Ledwidge Garth Ennis, comic writer Mick Fealty, editor of Slugger O'Toole was raised in Holywood Henry Harrison, MP, secretary to Charles Stewart Parnell, is buried in the Priory graveyard in the centre of Holywood Maurice Jay, U105 radio station presenter Bap Kennedy, singer-songwriter and record producer Tom Kerr, comic strip artist Stephen Martin, Great Britain and Ireland field hockey international Robert McCartney, QC, leading barrister and ex-UK Unionist Westminster MP for North Down (1995–2001); resides in Holywood. Alban Maginness, lawyer and Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician; born in Holywood. Rory McIlroy, professional golfer. Winner of the 2011 U.S. Open, 2012 PGA Championship, 2014 Open Championship, and 2014 PGA Championship. Margaret Mountford, lawyer, businesswoman and advisor to Alan Sugar. Dermot Murnaghan is a television news anchorman whose family moved to Holywood where he lived just off Church View and attended Sullivan Upper School. Rachel O'Reilly, chemist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry; born and