Champion Mahan tips McIlroy for top spot

Hunter Mahan rates Rory McIlroy “the best player in the world right now for sure” – but it is the American who has won the first world championship of the year and Luke Donald who still tops the rankings for one more week at least.

Having lived up to the billing in the way he beat Lee Westwood in the semi-finals of the Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson, McIlroy still needed to beat Mahan to take the number one spot.