Rory McIlroy

Olympic Golf

With the Olympics finally upon us, it seems an appropriate time to cast our eyes forward to 2016, Rio and golf’s reinstatement in the schedule. Including golf in the Games will never be met with unanimous approval.  I understand the argument that Olympic gold should be the pinnacle of a sport for it to warrant inclusion (and therefore it’s not really the place for football, or tennis etc).  However, the official line is that its inclusion isn’t to make Olympic gold the greatest prize in golf (no chance) but to encourage the international…Read more …

Questioning Preparations for the US Open

While the ‘Grand Slam’ might be the ultimate goal at the start of the year for a few marquee names dreaming the impossible dream, even they would concede that winning a single Major any given year is likely to be as good as it gets (at least in the post-Tiger Woods era). With only four handed out each year, and given that any one of the assembled field is capable of winning following a good run of form, the odds are always against you, so it’s easy to see why players focus their…Read more …
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