With Tiger Woods starting to breathe down his neck, Rory McIlroy saved par four times from at least 6 feet away to win the Honda Classic last Sunday.
None, he admitted, were as nerve-wracking as the four shots he played against Maria Sharapova one night later with tennis fans looking on at Madison Square Garden.
Is this any way to treat the world’s new No.1 golfer?
“I’ve never been so nervous in my life,” McIlroy said, safely back on a more familiar surface Tuesday to begin preparation for this week’s WGC-Cadillac Championship.
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