Who's chasing Jack Nicklaus now, Tiger Woods or Rory McIlroy? ‎

Millions of words are spoken and written of Rory McIlroy's US Open victory and what the long run holds for the young man and world golf however it absolutely was the person who still holds the record of eighteen major wins - Jack Nicklaus - who said it all. McIlroy won the 2009 Dubai Desert Classic as a 19-year-old and, last year, won the Quail Hollow Championship on the PGA Tour, shooting sixty two within the final spherical and could not even withdraw and have a drink, for he was 2 days in need of his twenty first birthday. What Nicklaus said personifies his own career in golf. Nicklaus shrugged it off. Palmer was his hero.
McIlroy, so far, has shown no signs of believing he's larger than the sport itself, not like Tiger Woods.
Day is enjoying the Australian Open, Presidents Cup and PGA here from mid-November and Norman, too, are going to be seen in the slightest degree 3 events. he's (non-playing captain) of Internationals team for the Cup however is enjoying the Open and PGA - that's the primary time he has played 2 events at home for variety of years.
Rory McIlroy fancies his possibilities of constructing it 3 Major victories in an exceedingly row this year, the new US Open champion said.
Scores of fans turned up to offer the young Northern Irishman a hero's welcome at the club where he 1st hit a plastic golf ball as a toddler.
A huge banner welcoming McIlroy home was erected at the front of the clubhouse however, to the frustration of the waiting crowds, the Ryder Cup player was smuggled in through a back entrance.
I haven't had time to assume," said McIlroy.
"But it absolutely was nice to sleep in my very own bed last night knowing the trophy was sitting downstairs and, no, I never thought of sleeping with it."
McIlroy can currently take 3 weeks off before returning to competitive golf for the British Open at Sandwich on the south-east coast of England.
"The support i buy from Northern eire and from the full island of eire is unbelievable," he said.
I don't grasp if it'll ever happen once more," McIlroy added in an exceedingly reference to Graeme McDowell's 2010 victory.
He said his beautiful show at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda had stunned even him.
History says Rory McIlroy will not win the British Open, and customary sense says neither can Tiger Woods.
If McIlroy wins, his father can collect £200,000 ($306,351) when obtaining 500-1 odds on a future book bet when his son was fifteen years previous.