Rory McIlroy ready to roar at Masters this week
Rory McIlroy, who almost ransacked history at Augusta last year, will be roaring again at this week’s Masters and is brimming with confidence about his latest venture in the star-studded event.
The young Irishman has haunting memories of the last event here at Magnolia Lane where he threw away his chances of landing the coveted title on the final day.
Leading the event in all three opening rounds, McIlroy fell for a disastrous over-par, 80 to fall behind the ranks and providing the most sought after window to Charl Schwartzel to run away with the green jacket.
The Ulsterman is adamant that history will not be repeating itself this week.
He said, "I’m excited about the week. I have been playing some good golf, I feel like I’m bringing in some pretty good form and I’m excited to get started".
"I learned a lot. I think one of the things that I learned was, as a person and a golfer, I wasn’t ready to win the Masters, wasn’t ready to win a Major".
McIlroy has already opened up the current season with a fiery start, winning the Honda Classic on the PGA Tour, his third PGA Tour title in his short career.
The young Irishman surged to the top of the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) with this victory, bringing an end to Luke Donald’s almost eight month long reign at the top.
McIlroy believes that his mental melt down in the final round of the event helped him realise a lot of technical and psychological aspects of the game resulting in his overwhelming victory at the US Open the next month.
McIlroy clinched the title at the treacherous Congressional Country Club in Washington, to become the youngest player to bag the title after Bobby Jones.
He added, “I took a lot from it and was able to put some of the things I learned into practice very quickly and that’s what resulted in winning the US Open a couple of months after”.
The young Ulsterman has won the European Tour Golfer of the Month accolade for the month of March, bagging the award for the fourth time.
He will be entering the event poised at number two on the OWGR.
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