McIlroy Reveals His Keys To Unlocking Hopeful Masters Glory – Discipline & Patience

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It took lengendary Texas-born Ben Crenshaw 13 attempts before he won a maiden Masters now all of 40-years ago.

Crenshaw was then aged 32 and had been runner-up twice before and also enjoyed three other top-10s before being fitted with a famed August National members jacket by the late, great Seve Ballesteros, and then in a somewhat bizarre scenario it was another great Spaniard in Jose Maria Olazabal who fitted Crenshaw when he captured a second Masters in 1995.

Rory McIlroy tees-up next week in a 16th Masters having savoured a runners-up finish two years ago along with six other top-10s.

If McIlroy were to win next week it would another great Spaniard in Jon Rahm who would help the Northern Irishman slip into a long overdue member’s jacket.

Once again, key to any success in any sporting endeavour will be ‘discipline’ as McIlroy rightly pointed out heading into today’s commencing Valero Texas Open and the final event ahead of the 88th hosting of The Masters.

“Discipline, not being tempted to do too much, sticking to your game plan,” said McIlroy at TPC San Antonio.

“Ben Crenshaw said a good thing to me a few years ago, he just said high lines, just keep it high, just high lines, read more into putts than you think.

But yeah, I think it’s more, you know, if you think about it, if someone said you go to Augusta and I want you to shoot even par for four days, you would think that’s pretty easy to do, and as you’re trying to shoot even par you’re probably going to back into a couple scores in the 60s and you’re actually going to do well.

“However, if someone says I want you to go out and shoot 67 at Augusta, it’s very easy to shoot 75 or 76 because you start to chase pins, you start to miss it in the wrong spots, you start to not be patient and play the disciplined golf that you need to.

“Good golf at Augusta feels lake boring golf and I think that’s something that I’ve always struggled with because that’s not my game. To me it’s the biggest test of discipline and the biggest test of patience of the year for me”.

Cleary, McIlroy’s going to again need all the discipline and patience in the golfing world if he’s to finally emerge as Augusta National’s newest member.



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