The stage is set for Rory McIlroy to take back golf's throne in 2016 [CBS]

[nevets88]

Some interesting quotes from McIlroy in the past and yesterday about his attitude towards winning. Nice to hear someone say I'm not a take no prisoners guy in everything I do, whether it's a platitude or not.

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The now-famous quote that McIlroy gave last year to Jaime Diaz of Golf Digest goes as follows.

"I've no real ambition to be the best at anything else," he said. "If we're playing a game of cards, or a game of pool, or whatever it is, I'd happily let someone win just to keep them happy."

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On Wednesday, I asked him when he learned to flip the switch on the course.

"There's a transitional period ... from a teenager getting out on Tour to your early 20s and you're still sort of discovering yourself and sort of knowing who you are and what you are," he explained.

"So I think somewhere in that time period, I learned that it's OK to be a winner. It's OK to be selfish at times. It's OK to do these things. That's the reason that we work hard is to try and win these tournaments."

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"Sometimes I still get those feelings of, I don't want to say I have guilt, but sometimes I feel like I haven't had to work as hard to get to where I am as some other people. I don't know if that's guilt or if that's questioning, 'Why is that me? Why am I the one that feels this way?' But I feel now that I definitely have got a ruthlessness on the course that I maybe didn't have a few years ago. I never struggle with that anymore."

http://www.cbssports.com/golf/eye-on-golf/25486650/the-stage-is-set-for-rory-mcilroy-to-take-back-golfs-throne-in-2016

[k-troop]

The title "poised to take back the throne" sounds great, but it's not exactly supported by his recent results.  He's won once in the last 9 months, and that was an off-season Euro tour event.  Certainly not saying he's washed up, but he's not on a killer streak either.  Obviously Rory could totally light up at any time.

I do believe we're in for some really good showdowns in majors this year between Jordan, Rory, Jason Day, and Rickie.  Two (or more) of them getting hot in a major seems very likely which would make for very exciting tournaments.

[Broke100Once]

Golf is such a weird game for "killer instinct" purposes since your primary opponent is the course, not another golfer.  The best way to be so-called ruthless is just to keep playing consistently well, and thus put the pressure on your opponent to match or better what you're doing.  The biggest part of Tiger's mystique wasn't his aloof manner, or crowd noise, or what Stevie Williams was doing, it was simply that he so rarely made mistakes that opponents knew they'd have to be virtually perfect to beat him, and 'virtually perfect' is so hard to achieve.