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Sunday, December 1, 2013

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McIlroy's 2013 'a lot better' after win in Oz

Rory McIlroy may have apologized to the fans Sunday for spoiling Adam Scott’s bid for the Australian triple crown, but make no mistake: His deep exhale after holing the winning putt on the 72nd hole showed just how much this drought-busting victory truly meant to him.
“It’s frustrating, because you know the level of golf you can play but you just aren’t able to play at that level,” McIlroy told reporters afterward, via The Age in Australia. “You’re working hard, you’re trying to find the reasons why … It’s frustrating, but I never lost belief. Golf is a long career, I’m 24 years old, and I can get a bit impatient at times. If I take a step back and look at the big picture, it hasn’t been too bad of a year. It’s been made a lot better with this win.”
As lost as he had looked at times this season, the former world No. 1 was clearly rounding into the form just as the season began to draw to a close. His run started with a T-2 at the OneAsia Tour’s Kolon Korean Open, and he followed that up with back-to-back top-6 finishes at the WGC-HSBC Champions and DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.
A year after winning five events and capturing Player of the Year honors on both sides of the pond, McIlroy was still winless, but he had displayed enough good form that Tiger Woods, among others, predicted that the 24-year-old would not go winless for 2013.
Woods proved prophetic, if only because Scott’s putter stopped cooperating on the back nine at Royal Sydney. There was a two-shot swing on the final hole – McIlroy sank a 15-footer for birdie, Scott bogeyed after sailing his approach over the green – and the former world No. 1 avoided his first winless season since 2008. He’s still scheduled to play in Woods’ tournament next week in California. 
“You have to go through the lows, and I’m not saying it was a low this year because it’s not like I have plummeted off the face of the earth,” McIlroy said, according to the report. “I’m still sixth in the world, so it’s not that bad. It’s not the level I feel like I can play to, but I feel like I’m getting back there.” 

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