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Rory McIlroy has never won The Masters – the one major he has never claimed<\/p>\n
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The problem, according to Nicklaus, has been consistency under pressure.<\/p>\n
“If you go back through his history in the last few years he gets to a place and all of a sudden a seven or an eight pops up and that keeps him from getting where he needs to go.”<\/p>\n
McIlroy, now 35, is seeking to join an elite group of golfers who have achieved the career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n
Victory at Augusta would see him stand alongside Nicklaus, Player, Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen and Tiger Woods in having won all four major titles.<\/p>\n
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Rory McIlroy is one of the favourites to finally win The Masters this year<\/p>\n
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Gary Player emphasised the significance of such an achievement.<\/p>\n
“I hope he does, because it will give golf a great boost to have another winner of the grand slam,” the South African said.<\/p>\n
McIlroy was among the later starters on Thursday, while defending champion Scottie Scheffler began his bid for a third title in four years at 1515 BST.<\/p>\n
The world number two has not won a major championship in over a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golf legend Jack Nicklaus has thrown his support behind Rory McIlroy to finally win The Masters and complete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,12,512,93,79,16,15,978,727],"class_list":{"0":"post-10775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sgg","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114319389140689686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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