Rory McIlroy confirms Masters plan in determined bid to finish 10-year main wait
Rory McIlroy has expressed his imaginative and prescient for a golf world tour that integrates nationwide titles into the worldwide circuit at vacation spot venues whereas additionally sharing his hopes of lastly adding the Masters to his main assortment.
The four-time main champion captured a US Open title in 2011, the PGA Championship in 2012, and the Open and PGA Championships in 2014. But its now nearly a decade because the man from Northern Ireland claimed his final main crown. While reflecting on Augusta, McIlory shared what successful a inexperienced jacket would imply for his legacy.
“I’d love to win it,” he instructed Golf Digest. “If I don’t, I probably will look back and think I missed out on something.”
“I did an interview a few years ago when the interviewer asked if I felt like I deserved a green jacket,” he continued. “I don’t deserve anything. The game has given me more than enough. I have to go out there and earn it.”
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“The Masters is the Disneyland of golf,” McIlroy added. “You go there, put the Mickey Mouse ears on, and get into what it is. And when you leave, you snap out of it.”
McIlroy is in Dubai for the beginning of his season and in a wide ranging interview, and in addition expanded on his ideas about an evolving golf-landscape. LIV Golf has altered the complexion and he believes interesting times lie ahead, outlining his perception {that a} worldwide schedule for the world’s perfect gamers might be looming.
The world no. 2 performs totally on the PGA Tour however is a daily on the DP World Tour, significantly the early weeks of the 12 months on the ‘Desert Swing.’
He highlighted the potential of various markets comparable to Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan and particularly highlighted the distinguished tournaments just like the Australian Open and the South African Open as being in want of upper profiles in addition to enhancing the sport for the gamers.
“We need to make sure the courses are worthy of the players who are going to be competing,” he added. “My dream scenario is a world tour, with the proviso that corporate America has to remain a big part of it all. Saudi Arabia, too. That’s just basic economics. But there is an untapped commercial opportunity out there.
“Investors always want to make a return on their money. Revenues at the PGA Tour right now are about $2.3 billion. So how do we get that number up to four or six? To me, it is by looking outward. They need to think internationally and spread their wings a bit. I’ve been banging that drum for a while.
“The South African Open is another I’d have in the mix. Then you have places like Singapore and Hong Kong and Japan. What a market Japan represents. That would be another opportunity. We could end up with something that resembles Formula One, but with a little more of an American presence.
“Throw in the four majors and you have a brilliant schedule for the top 70-100 guys, whatever the number is. We’d have, say a 22-event schedule. That would look pretty good to me.”
McIlroy’s season begins with the Dubai Invitational this week earlier than remaining within the Emirates for the Dubai Desert Classic subsequent week, all a part of earlier preparation for his Masters push. “My huge factor about Augusta is simply to go in there enjoying effectively. The weeks earlier than are necessary simply to get me feeling like I’m in good kind.
“This year, in fact, I’m going to play more before the Masters. It will be my ninth or 10th event of the year. Previously, it’s been my sixth or seventh. I’ll hopefully be a bit sharper and know exactly where my game really is.”