It’s the majors that matter, declares relaxed McIlroy

Rory McIlroy sought to silence any critics ahead of next week’s Masters declaring he didn’t mind if he missed 10 successive cuts in a season as long as he kept winning tournaments.

It had been three-time Masters champion, Phil Mickelson, suggesting, in the light of McIlroy adding this week’s Valero Texas Open to his schedule, this week’s San Antonio event was not “conducive” in preparing for Augusta National.

Firstly, Pádraig Harrington, who has joined McIlroy in America’s seventh most populated city, disagrees.