Rory Mclroy made his way to the practice range at noon today remaking he is targeting a final round in the 60s at the WGC – Cadillac Championship.
McIlroy heads into the last day of the $US 9.5m event leading by three shots.
And if he were to win he would join Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only players on the PGA Tour to have won 12 tournaments by the age of 27, and with McIlroy to turn 27 on 4th May later this year.
“I know if I can go out there and shoot a round in the 60s then I know that would give me a really good chance to win,” he said.
“So I know if I can play a really controlled round of golf like how I played yesterday, and also take advantage of the par 5s and be smart hitting to the right spots then it should be good enough.”
Of course, McIlroy captured last year’s European Tour No. 1 title in winning a third Race to Dubai title in four years but he has not won on the PGA Tour since capturing last May’s Wells Fargo Championship.
Rory McIlroy has a winning sparkle in his eye speaking earlier today before heading to the range at Trump Doral.
And if McIlroy were to win it would also be his 13th European Tour title and his third WGC crown in his 26th WGC appearance.
Victory would also be his 15th top-10 finish in 25 WGC showings.
And he would join Woods (18 wins) along with Aussie Geoff Ogilvy (3) as the most profilic winners in WGC history.
Continuing the Woods theme, McIlroy would follow Woods to become the second player to win a WGC event in three consecutive seasons after capturing the 2014 WGC – Bridgestone Invitational and last year’s WGC – Cadillac Match-Play Championship and he would follow Woods to be just the second player to win three different WGC events.
McIlroy would also move within on victory of Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke’s record of 14 European Tour wins by an Irish-born player since the Tour’s first season in 1972.
Moneywise – McIlroy’s would have earned Euro 13,557,348 in Race to Dubai prize money in a mere 30 events.
That’s an average of Euro 451,911 a tournament.
