Cute alert!
It’s Wednesday before The Masters and it feels like Christmas Eve. I’ve been trying to explain that to my roommate, a non-golfer, who knows nothing about the game. She is insisting it can’t be Christmas tomorrow without presents and she will be incredibly disappointed if she doesn’t wake up to a tree with pretty lights with gifts underneath it.
“Yeah, dream on,” I told her. (continue reading…)
Adorable couple!
Former world no. 1 tennis player Caroline Wozniacki donned a white jumpsuit and caddied for her boyfriend Rory McIlroy in the Par 3 Contest, which takes place the day before the Masters kicks off at Augusta National. Wozniacki was given the opportunity to hit a shot, and well, let’s just say she would have been better off serving it or hitting a moonball.
C’mon, Rory, I thought you were giving Caroline lessons! In her defense, it’s pretty nerve-wracking to stand up there in front of thousands of people. Here’s the video of Wozniacki testing the waters: (continue reading…)
Wozza is in Augusta this week cheering on Rory
Caroline Wozniacki is spending the week in Augusta to support her boyfriend Rory McIlroy. On Sunday evening, she revealed to fellow Dane Thorbjorn Oleson, who is making his Masters debut, on Twitter that she would be caddying for McIlroy in Wednesday’s Par 3 Contest.
Strangely, she has since deleted her reply to Oleson, but the tweet still appears in the conversation thread via Oleson’s account. Here’s a screenshot:
Rors’ growing pains
Rory McIlroy felt the heavy expectations and pressures as the world’s No. 1 golfer weighing down on his 23-year-old shoulders and he had a meltdown, resulting in a bad decision in the heat of the moment. He likely thought the world was closing in on him and he just wanted to escape when he walked off the course last Friday at the Honda Classic.
As (I) expected, McIlroy was open and candid, admitting to his mistake and taking responsibility for his abrupt, un-Rory-like withdrawal in his press conference on Wednesday morning at Doral. (continue reading…)
Still BFFs and almost neighbors in South Florida
Last Thursday after both were eliminated in the first round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, world No. 1 Rory McIlroy was wheeling his travel bag out to the parking lot when he saw world No. 2 Tiger Woods was putting his in the trunk of his car. The two acknowledged each other in a “yeah, this sucks, I’ll see you later, man” kind of way, and then later Tiger texted Rory and invited him to play at The Medalist on Sunday morning. (continue reading…)
Dealmaker: Musta been the putting green!
Okay, considering world’s No. 1 golfer Rory McIlroy recently signed a deal with Nike reportedly worth $200 million, it’s actually not absurdly ginormous or extravagant (from what I can see of the pictures). In fact, it’s rather modest compared to his new BFF Tiger Woods’ Jupiter home which is larger than Planet Jupiter.
Golf’s newly-anointed prince McIlroy recently purchased a luxurious home in Palm Beach Gardens with a price tag around $11 million, according to reports. (continue reading…)
Wozzilroy in full force: Caroline commandeers the mic
Leave it to Wozzilroy to spice up the news (a massive thank you, by the way!) during golf’s version of the “off-season.”
After Rory McIlroy opened with a 66 at the DP World Tour Championship — which he followed on Friday with a 67 to share the 36-hole lead with Luke Donald — he took the podium for what he thought would be the usual post-round press conference with the usual mundane questions.
Well, if you’ve ever thought some of our inquiries were awkward or annoying, then clearly you’ve never witnessed a significant other commandeering the microphone to interrogate a player about your Christmas present in front of the world media, no less. (continue reading…)
Ed. note re: the headline: To be clear, I’m being facetious. It’s obviously pure speculation since the cut line has yet to be determined and we do not have knowledge of Rory’s weekend plans, if he does indeed have the weekend off.
The Open cut is the deepest
So much for defending his U.S. Open title at Olympic Club. Rory McIlroy, who blew the field away by eight shots last year at Congressional, followed his first-round seven-over 77 with a three-over 73 in the second round for a two-day total of 10-over. (continue reading…)
Romantic evening for the young lovebirds
After Rory McIlroy missed his second straight cut — his first on the European Tour since 2008 (aside from majors) — at Wentworth last Friday, he said he needed to refocus his practice energies. He barely broke 80, posting a 79. Golf’s latest golden boy is indeed human. Well, McIlroy had a bad week, which included a club throw during the first round, but known for his candor, he admitted that he may have slacked off in the practice department lately, according to The Guardian‘s Lawrence Donegan: (continue reading…)
McIlroy: All grown up.
At the 2010 Quail Hollow Championship, Rory McIlroy, who was only 20-years-old, nearly missed the cut before holing out for eagle on the par-5 No. 7 (his 16th hole) in the second round to make it on the number. It feels like it was just the other week that McIlroy put on a weekend clinic, firing rounds of 66-62 to capture his first PGA Tour victory, which included a double-breaking 30-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to top off the stirring come-from-behind win.
Now, two years later, the 22-year-old reigning U.S. Open champion is back in Charlotte, rested and ready for competition after only making one start in the last seven weeks to jump-start his summer. McIlroy, who has always been mature beyond his years, turns 23 on Friday and said he’s cutting back to about 23 events this season compared to around 30 last year. (continue reading…)
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