Golf: McIlroy gets another shot at number 1

Says the event in Arizona ‘was a very positive week’.

PALM BEACH GARDENS: Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy could get another chance to seize golf’s number one world ranking when he tees it up at the US PGA Tour Honda Classic this week. McIlroy had the opportunity to supplant England’s Luke Donald atop the rankings at the World Golf Championships Match Play Championship last week, but his runner-up finish to Hunter Mahan was not enough. Despite falling to America’s Mahan in the championship match, McIlroy said the event in Arizona ‘was a very positive week’. “I felt like I didn’t play my best golf at the start of the week,” said McIlroy. “I just got off to a bit of a slow start and left myself a bit too much to do.”

Published in The Express Tribune, March 2^nd, 2012.