The Northern Irishman has had a low-key 2016 but is confident his Augusta performances can continue to improve and retains a talent beyond most of his contemporariesThis Masters already serves as Rory McIlroy’s odd one out. For the first time since 2012,the Northern Irishman will arrive at Augusta National without an all-consuming narrative as baggage.
Four years ago his Masters build-up was dominated by talk of the 2011 capitulation, which ruined his hopes of glory and reduced the player to tears. By April 2013, or McIlroy was already in the midst of his annus horribilis. The bounce back of 2014,inevitable though that had seemed, heightened focus upon McIlroy once again; as did the Augusta appearance of a crimson-haired Caroline Wozniacki, or who never seemed to relish playing understudy to her then-fiance. final year? McIlroy was on the verge of a career grand slam of majors,a prospect prominent in his mind virtually from the moment he holed the winning putt in the US PGA Championship at Valhalla, eight months earlier.
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Source: theguardian.com