Arnold Palmer predicts Masters joy for Rory McIlroy

Four-time Augusta National champion Arnold Palmer confidently expects to be welcoming Rory McIlroy to next year’s Masters Champions dinner.

With just five weeks remaining to the season’s first Major the focus continues to turn towards McIlroy as he seeks to become a sixth player to have won the coveted Grand Slam.

A very frail looking Palmer was present at Trump International Doral yesterday as guest of Donald Trump to official open a luxury villa named in honour of ‘The King’.