Rory McIlroy plays his approach to the 11th in the final roundRory McIlroy headed for the Masters with a new sponsor and even bigger injection of confidence after he finished second to a brilliant Martin Laird in the Valero Texas Open.

“See you tomorrow.” Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood cross paths outside the media centre at the Ritz Carlton Golf Club near Tucson. What Graeme McDowell once described as a relationship of “jokes with jabs” will get deadly serious later today when Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood square off in the semi-finals of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson.