McIlroy – I wasn’t ready

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Rory McIlroy: plenty of time to win majors

Rory McIlroy admits he wasn’t ready to win his first major championship when he teed it up in the final round of last month’s Masters.

The Northern Irishman led by four shots heading into Sunday at Ausgusta, but slumped to a closing 80 and finished 10 behind champion Charl Schwartzel.

Back in America for the first time since then, McIlroy his is preparing for his defence of the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte.

“First thing I don’t think I was ready – that was the most important thing,” McIlroy, who will turn 22 on Wednesday, said at Quail Hollow, the course where he shot 62 on Sunday to win his first PGA Tour title a year ago.

“First thing, I don’t think I was ready – that was the most important thing. I displayed a few weaknesses in my game that I need to work on. But I think you’ve got to take the positives – for 63 holes I led and it was just a very bad back nine.”
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“I displayed a few weaknesses in my game that I need to work on. But I think you’ve got to take the positives – for 63 holes I led and it was just a very bad back nine that sort of took the tournament away from me, I suppose.

“But what can you do? There’re three more majors this year and hopefully dozens more that I’ll play in my career.

“I was just trying to stay ahead of the field, which in hindsight probably wasn’t a good thing.

“I just should have gone out, played my game and said ‘Right, if I play well today I’m capable of shooting 65 around this golf course and winning by 10’.

“But that’s not the way it worked out and that’s experience. That’s just learning to be in that position more often.

“Hopefully I’ll be able to get myself in those positions more often in my career and sooner or later it’s going to happen where it finally clicks and I’m able to handle the whole thing a lot better and win.

“It took me a couple of days maybe to get over it. It was a great chance to win a first major, but it’s only golf at the end of the day.

“No-one died. I’m very happy with my life, very happy with my game.”

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