START OF AN ERA?

Rory McIlroy might have lost his match against Hunter Mahan in the final of the World Golf Championship – Accenture Match Play Championship at the Ritz Carlton Golf Club in the deserts of Arizona, but he is well and truly in place to succeed Luke Donald as the number one golfer in the world and the way things are going at the moment, if McIlroy just manages to go beyond Donald by one round in the next event they play together, he will succeed him as the world number one.

Furthermore, players, critics and fans alike are all in favor of the 22 year old British golfer becoming the number one golfer in the world, believing that he will be the one to lead golf out of the many controversies that the game has managed to embroil itself into. Furthermore, they believe that Rory McIlroy will be even more popular as the world number one than Tiger Woods, who was at one time, the crowd favorite but his off field controversies have seen him suffer a huge fall from grace in recent years.

Moreover, his recent form has also not been up to the standards that he had set for himself. McIlroy, who has been dubbed as the Boy Wonder by golfing fans received a rousing ovation by the fans present at the final of the Match Play Championship and Hunter Mahan, his opponent also believes that the British player he played against almost three years back is now close to becoming the finished product, ready to rule the world for the next decade at least.

But Rory McIlroy is not ready to claim the top spot right now, according to the man himself as he wants to gain more experience before he begins his reign as the king of the golfing world.

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MCILROY CHOOSES IRELAND OVER USA

The Irish Open will get a major boost as local lad and world No. 3 Rory McIlroy confirmed his participation at the event. This decision means obviously that Rory will be giving the US Open, the tournament of which he is the reigning champion, a miss! The 22-year old had stunned the golfing world last year at the US Open when he blazed his way to the championship with a 8-shot victory at the Congressional Country Club. His meteoric rise in the circuit has quickly made him a sensation in the golfing world.

Rory confirmed his participation from the Hong Kong Open and said that to end all the speculation on whether or not he would be playing the Irish Open he was happy to announce that he would indeed take part in the tournament.

McIlroy went on to add that for him the Irish Open was, and would continue to be one of the most important events on the global golf calendar. It was their national open and thus obviously a title that he would love to win at some stage of his career.

Rory McIlroy stressed on the fact that the recent high of Irish Golf meant that it was a big responsibility for them to put on a good show, not just for the home fans, but also for the audiences watching worldwide.

He further added that there has been a lot of buzz and speculation about his joining the PGA tour, but for him it was not really much of a drastic change from the schedules he had followed in the last few seasons, but what it meant was that he would just be adding a few more events to his American schedule in the coming year.

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