Rory McIlroy: ‘I’m not due anything, the Masters won’t just fall in your lap’

Northern Irishman has no time for those who say it is his destiny to wear the Green Jacket but his recent form gives the four-times major winner cause for optimism

Rory McIlroy is aware of the allegation but the rebuttal is firm. Mitigating circumstances aren’t typically factored in when a wait for a major championship victory stretching back to August 2014 – and an inability to capture the Masters – are discussed. To the dissenters, McIlroy has it too easy. Fame, money and marriage, it is said, have doused his competitive instincts.

“I don’t see that, because everyone else is in the same boat,” McIlroy says. “Everyone out here has a nice life, why am I any different? Maybe I just portray more of a sense of happiness, I don’t know. I am very happy and, whether I win or lose, I go home and I have everything that I need but that doesn’t make me any less motivated to go out and win.

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