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Rory McIlroy's revelations show why the star will never claim the elusive triumph of the Masters (Image: GETTY)
Links golf in what is happening for the summer on the coast of Antrim hardly resembles Augusta in April. His dysfunction tells us so technically little about the ability of McIlroy to win his big title missing.
What his abbreviated involvement in the Open Championship highlighted in red pencil is however McIlroy's chronic problem when he occurs at Pinnacle events, the very small number he most desires.
In Memphis, this week, for the St Jude Invitational – a tournament he will win without any worries – he spoke of some of the feelings he had felt around Portrush.
About the sudden rush of nerves that he felt in the ten minutes before his departure time Thursday. About the problem that his trembling hand had put his golf ball on his ankle before going out of bounds.
And about the tears he had to remember four times Friday afternoon, as his local fans were ready to make an unlikely break.
What he has revealed raises serious questions about his ability to close the deal for Augusta, join the five Grand Slam giants and make the jump to the historic Golf Hall of Fame.
McIlroy is one of the great talents of this sport. He has won 25 tournaments around the world, including four majors, ranked 3rd in the world and has a record this year that is higher than the PGA Tour record.
Send him to a golf course with an empty head and he has the ability to destroy it. But Portrush was an eloquent example of his inability to manage his own emotional state when a tournament really mattered to him.
Rory McIlroy's revelations show why the star will never claim the elusive triumph of the Masters (Image: GETTY)
He was so eager to surrender to his compatriots that it consumed him. There is no other way to explain the entangled faculties that led to an eight in the first hole and the careless wave of the 16th green that finally cost him a place in the weekend pack.
In the second round, when all hope of victory was gone – and the pressure was released – he played with his skin, which only served to prove the point.
In the same way, McIlroy, who won the other three majors, has such an intense desire that the Green Jacket has become a straitjacket.
Since McIlroy won the Open in 2014, he has had five attempts to complete the Slam. Augusta should suit him until the ground, but every time the victory escapes him. This year, in an effort to break the spell, he resorted to psychological kidology to claim that the Masters was like any other tournament and it did not matter.
Rory McIlroy's revelations show why the star will never claim the elusive triumph of the Masters (Image: GETTY)
It was a bit like a child hiding his eyes behind his hands and announcing that no one can see them.
It did not work. He finished 21st. It's been five years now that he has not won any Major and is wondering if he will win another one? I think he's going – he's too good to not – but not the one he really wants.
Handcuffed by his genius, he will forever implore the green jacket which, by its only natural capacity, should belong to him rightly.
At age 30, he is ten years old or older to do it, but he is not comfortable with the pressure being exerted on him during the period. As long as he stays Rory McIlroy, he will feel it. And when McIlroy feels it, the story never seems to end well.
Rory McIlroy's revelations show why the star will never claim the elusive triumph of the Masters (Image: GETTY)
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Duncan Scott was rewarded for refusing to share the podium with Sun Yang at the world championships in Gwangju.
There is no protest like a podium rally and, like Mack Horton, Sun is now in the limelight on the actions of his team who refused to leave a sample of his blood drawn for testing purposes. The vial containing it was broken with a hammer and the testers were returned empty-handed.
Sun has already announced a three-month ban on trimetazidine, a stimulant contracted five years ago.
Innocent until proven otherwise, of course, but the first act of an athlete in these corrupt times must be total compliance.
"I'm a winner, you're a loser," he told Scott after winning gold and bronze by the Briton in the 200-meter freestyle.
Let's see if this is still the case when the appeal of the World Anti-Doping Agency to the Court of Arbitration for sport over the sun is heard in September.
Rory McIlroy's revelations show why the star will never claim the elusive triumph of the Masters (Image: GETTY)
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Boxing can kill. The last gloomy reminder came after the death of Russian Maxim Dadashev as a result of injuries sustained in a lightweight battle between IBF and Subriel Matias.
Previously undefeated, Dadashev had been heavily punished in the Maryland contest before his trainer Buddy McGirt throws the sponge, either hospitalized with brain bleeds and dies later.
As a result of tragic events like this, the question of where boxing should sit in modern society remains uncomfortable.
Deaths occur in many sports, but boxing is a rarity to the extent that the real goal is to inflict damage to the opponent's head with all the inherent risks.
Yet this week, Sports England has awarded £ 40,000 scholarships to boxing clubs in an attempt to divert teens from boredom. They recognize the discipline, the physical form and the sense of the boxing of their own.
In the few dark days for the sport, it should be remembered that boxing can also be a force for good.
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"Visit North Korea" is the surprising and slightly alarming logo of the Redcar Athletic Training Kit this season. Fortunately, this is a niche travel company rather than a direct order from Kim Jong-un.
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