Rory McIlroy: I’m a complete p****k the week before US Masters

Or at least an acolyte. “It’s not a tough place to be put in, but it was a round of golf and nothing more”.

Storms are predicted to end overnight before gusting breezes of more than 20 miles per hour (32 kph) and cool temperatures move into the area on Thursday and Friday, set to play havoc with the world’s greatest shotmakers. “But sometimes when it comes to family, family has to overcome anything else, obviously golf and other things that you’re anxious about”.

McIlroy nearly has a “Grand Slam” of Majors, with the elusive event at Augusta National proving the only flagship tournament which he has yet to find success.

“It just puts more of a premium on speed putting”. “It was to help with pronunciation and enunciation and to be able to talk without pausing”. “This is the first time I’ve ever been the favorite”. “It’s just about going out on the golf course and getting it done”, said McIlroy, mindful of 2011 when a back-nine Sunday collapse saw him squander the Masters lead. Heck, even some perfunctory end-zone pylons from Super Bowl games have been sold at auctions, some going for as much as $3,910 from Super Bowl XLIII.

First, he splashed his tee shot into Rae’s Creek. He has never, in three appearances in the Masters, finished lower than second. One, Horton Smith, doesn’t count because everyone was a first-time starter in 1934, when the tournament began.

“I would say that Phil has a lot better chance of winning this year than I did when I was 46”, Nicklaus said. “She just kind of has to give you this look and I know”.

With the Masters just around the corner, players might not get as much practice in as they had hoped with awful weather on the way.

Still, his rap is: Why else would he be here if not to win?

“Several presidents, including one who was a member here, have been significant advocates and players of golf, and I think it’s only natural that someone who loves the game would espouse and be proud of that association”, Payne said. “After the sort of backlash I received, I’d think twice about it”, he replied. I was fortunate that the other guys didn’t finish quite as well as they could finish, and I won the golf tournament.

“Obviously, this is different”.

World No.6 Jordan Spieth, the 2015 victor at Augusta, is also determined to atone for his 2016 collapse. It’s very, very impressive. If I want to win here, everything’s going to have go well for me. He’s shown that he can play and compete with the best. I mean, it’s obscene. “Even if you make five, five is better than six; take the water out of play”. And then under a cloudless sky, Spieth launched a picture-perfect shot that turned slightly right to left, drawing the unmistakable sound of anticipation from the crowd.

Closer, frankly, than almost any golfer in history.

Scott missed the cut at the Shell Houston Open last week but rather than seeing this as a negative, the Queenslander used his weekend for some extra Masters preparations. Became interested in golf watching Tiger Woods win the 1997 Masters. Still, Johnson hasn’t been great at this course, breaking 70 just four times in 26 rounds.

“It is one of many tournaments I’ve lost given a certain performance on a hole or a stretch of holes”, Spieth said Tuesday.

“It’s always important to get off to a decent start but especially here”. “I didn’t win the golf tournament”.

“I don’t know how many people realize how much Arnold took me under his wing when I was 20, 22 years old”, Nicklaus said.

“I couldn’t control my body, honestly”. He seems to have been trying to do two things. He was nice enough to let me bring (my brother) Keith along to play with us back in December.

“It’s not going to be easy, but I’m definitely up for it”.