Golf
What’s the story, Rory’s glory?
The world number one spot has been occupied twenty-one times by six different golfers since Rory McIlroy’s reascension to the throne. In that time, not one of Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas, Justin Rose or Brooks Koepka managed to rack up more than the 95 cumulative weeks that Rory had achieved by 2015. This week he made it an astounding 96 weeks on top of the world. A century beckons imminently. However, by the time the Masters swings by in April, talk will have shifted back once more to his quest to complete the career Grand Slam at Augusta. Going into the fourth day in 2011, we would have offered some fairly eye-bulging odds that Rory would still be chasing his maiden Masters by the end of the decade. Here he is, and here we are. The only unsurprising facet to his career is that he is the current favourite for this year’s renewal at 17/2.
by Harry Light ·
Thu 13 Feb
