Is Rory McIlroy Ready to Win Under Pressure at the 2014 PGA Championship?

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Published: August 10, 2014

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Tally-ho. The fox hunt is on.

Rory McIlroy heads into Sunday’s final round of the PGA Championship leading by one shot, but it's without the kind of cushion he’s carried after 54 holes in the three major championships he has won.

The 25-year-old wasn’t in a mood to quibble about that, and at his press conference, via ASAP Sports, he maintained that he’s more than happy with his tenuous position, saying:

Obviously it has its stresses at some point, but at the same time it's where you want to be. It's the position you want to be in. We don't practice all these hours and grind on the range and put so much work into it to be teeing off in the middle of the pack on Sunday of a major. That's where you want to be.

But among the crowd bunched behind him are two very key names.

Rickie Fowler, sitting two strokes behind, is the hip young cat in the big Puma hat who’s still on the prowl for his first major, but who overall has clawed his way through golf’s four big tournaments better than anyone this year.



Fowler is the only player to finish in the top five at all three majors played so far, and at the PGA, he has been bogey-free for the last 27 holes.  

Phil Mickelson, three shots shy of McIlroy, has finally righted his left-handed game in Louisville and appears ready for a homestretch charge that would make any Kentucky Derby thoroughbred proud.

Mickelson birdied four of his final five holes Saturday and missed an eagle on No. 18 by the proverbial gnat’s eyelash.

Those two sizzling Yanks will be playing in the pair ahead of Northern Ireland’s McIlroy. And there will be many in the crowd at Valhalla who still take pride in having hollered loud and clear for the U.S. team that won the Ryder Cup there in 2008.

Think they might want to be heard from again?



If those two ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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