Rory McIlroy needs one of the greatest miracles in Masters history to complete the Grand Slam this week, but he still believes he has "half a chance" to come from ten shots off the lead and don the green jacket.

Rory McIlroy will go into the weekend a whopping ten shots off the lead after another day of pain in the Masters at an attritional Augusta National.

Rory McIlroy heads for Augusta National with a spring in his step after closing with a bogey-free six-under 66 to finish third in the Valero Texas Open.

Paul McGinley played just twice in the Masters but he knows how it feels to want something so badly, it becomes almost impossible to perform.

Rory McIlroy was pleased to step off the rollercoaster that's left him feeling queasy as the Masters looms and shoot his first bogey-free round for a month in the Valero Texas Open last night.

Shane Lowry believes he's hitting form in the nick of time as the Masters approaches after he fired a six-under 66 to break his Bay Hill hoodoo and lead the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando.

Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry took advantage of benign conditions to open with four-under 67s and move straight into contention in the Cognizant Classic at the Palm Beaches.

Rory McIlroy responded with a facetious, “Who knows?” when asked about his former agent’s claim that there was a “10 pc” chance he’d sign for LIV Golf.

LIV Golf's Talor Gooch will likely be left waiting in vain for a Masters invitation after declaring that Rory McIlroy's name would need an asterisk beside it if he completes the career grand slam by donning the green jacket at Augusta National in April.

Rory McIlroy’s victory in darkness at the 2014 PGA Championship in Valhalla Golf Club, resisting the rallies of local favourites Phil Mickelson and Rickie Fowler in a rain-delayed final round, was the Northern Irishman’s most recent in a major. However, it was not the last time nor the first time someone from the Old Country left an imprint in Valhalla and Kentucky.

Five-time major winner Brooks Koepka admits that Rory McIlroy is his biggest rival and predicts the Holywood star will soon get that elusive fifth win in one of golf’s biggest events.

Rory McIlroy’s former agent, Chubby Chandler, believes the world number two’s u-turn on the PGA TOUR’s merger deal with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund could be the first step in a shock move to LIV Golf.

Rory McIlroy feels for Scottie Scheffler as he battles putting woes, but admits he’s also relieved that the world number one “is giving the rest of us a chance”.

Rory McIlroy went from contending for the lead to staring at the cut line after he bizarrely dropped five shots in his last four holes and opened with a three-over 74 in the Genesis Invitational in Los Angeles last night.

Rory McIlroy looks like a man on a mission in 2024 after he put the previous week’s Dubai reverse behind him and ground out a record fourth win in the Hero Dubai Desert Classic.

Rory McIlroy has a record fourth Hero Dubai Desert Classic win in his sights after he sensationally eagled the last to card a scintillating nine-under 63 and grab the early clubhouse lead.