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Published 14:37 23 Mar 2018 GMT
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"We were talking about triggers, about how do you start your putting stroke. Everyone has different ways and I said Wayne Rooney before he takes a free-kick or a penalty he taps his toe on the ground before he actually starts his run-up. I noticed it when I shot a Nike commercial with him a few years ago."https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/976456148235816960 With the Masters just two weeks away, McIlroy says he is delighted where his game is at as he seeks to complete the career Grand Slam by adding the Green Jacket to previous wins at the US Open, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship. "I'm very happy to have my game in this shape going into the first major of the year of course," the world number seven said. "Even if I hadn't have won last week, just to see the signs that my game was in good shape would have been good enough for me knowing that going into Augusta I was ready to play well.
"I've had three goes at winning the grand slam and I'd had maybe 12 or 13 majors before I won my first one so you could say the first one was maybe a little bit harder, but I only get one opportunity a year at Augusta. "The last three years I've played well, not well enough, and hopefully I put the last piece of the puzzle in there this year and get it done. "I'm optimistic that I can go ahead and do this more often. I've crossed that line that I needed to. I hadn't won in the past 18 months and it was a real validation. "I'm optimistic about not just the next few weeks but the whole season now. It's great to get a win early and I've got all that great stuff to fall back on from how I handled everything on Sunday."
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