Rory McIlroy provides injury update ahead of date with destiny at The Masters
Rory McIlroy has provided an update on his injury scare ahead of golf's first major of the season at The Masters.
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Rory McIlroy has settled any doubts over a recent elbow injury scare by declaring he's fully match fit at The Masters.
McIlroy, 35, is attempting to become just the sixth player in the modern era to complete golf's rare career grand slam.
The Northern Irishman is looking to join Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods in the record books this Sunday.
McIlroy admitted two weeks ago his elbow was giving him a bit of discomfort during his last competitive start at the Texas Children's Houston Open.
The World No.2 finished T5 in that event, marking his fourth top-five finish around the world this season.
McIlroy has already won twice so far on the PGA Tour this season with victories at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and The Players Championship.
Thankfully, McIlroy's elbow has been treated and he's now ready for a huge week at famed Augusta National.
"Elbow is all good, yeah elbow is good, got a little bit of treatment done last week and it's all good," confirmed McIlroy.
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McIlroy then spoke about his admiration of Augusta National.
"I've always loved this course," said McIlroy, who finished second behind Scottie Scheffler at the 2022 Masters.
"People ask me if you could play one course for the rest of your life what would it be, and I think walking around this course for the rest of your life would be pretty cool."
McIlroy added: "Augusta is just a beautiful place. I don't think there's a more beautiful course on earth. It's like you're playing golf in the prettiest part in the world.
"The history and everything this club and course means to the game of golf goes into it too, but I feel you can spend all day out there and time would go by very quickly."
On the pressure of being considered a favourite to win The Masters and finally complete the career grand slam this week, McIlroy replied: "It's just narratives, it's noise and I'm trying to block out that noise as much as possible.
"I need to treat this tournament like all the others I play throughout the year.
"I understand the narrative and noise and what comes with this tournament each year, but I need to just focus on my job."
World No.3 Xander Schauffele believes McIlroy's current form is "motivating" for him ahead of The Masters.
Schauffele considers McIlroy has been playing to such a high standard of golf on some of the PGA Tour's toughest courses.
"Just motivating," Schauffele asserted of the form of the world's top two in the OWGR.
"There's so many guys that have played at a really high level, and luckily I've learned that I can play at that level.
"More motivating than anything else. They've been playing incredible golf. Rory has been playing unbelievably well this year with a couple wins already and kind of breezing through what looks like hard golf courses.
"And it's just what happens when you're a really good player and you put things together. That's sort of what happens. Luckily I was able to do that last year, and there's no reason I can't do it again."
More to follow from McIlroy's press conference...
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