McIlroy must learn how to win, says Chandler

RORY McILROY needs to play more to learn the art of winning, his manager Andrew ‘Chubby’ Chandler said, in the wake of the 21-year-old’s Masters heartbreak.

McIlroy let slip a four-shot, 54-hole lead in the final round at Augusta on Sunday, bogeying the first hole and then, in his own words, unravelling on the back nine after his tee shot at the 10th hole ricocheted off a tree and landed left of the fairway between two cabins.

The Holywood youngster, with two career wins, also clipped a tree while attempting to find the green and carded a triple-bogey seven at the start of a horror run that left him with an eight-over-par final-round 80 and a tie for 15th place.

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