CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Rory McIlroy hopes that by the end of the year, all this to and fro at the top of the World Rankings will be a thing of the past and there'll be a solid No. 1. "I hope you're looking at him," he says. "It's so volatile because guys are playing here and playing there. It seems like, when I play, Luke (Donald) doesn't play; when Luke plays, I don't play. It would be nice to assert my authority in that No. 1 position and keep it for a while."
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It wouldn't be much of a stretch to imagine that McIlroy's march through last year's U.S. Open and up the world rankings began two years ago with a final-round 62 at Quail Hollow CC. "I obviously felt in control at Congressional but, I don't know, I think just under the circumstances, being four back, you follow up a great round like a 66 on a Saturday with a 62, to be able to do that was fun," he says of his first victory in the U.S.
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McIlroy is coming off a seven week stretch where he played just once, and that featured a rather disappointing weekend in Augusta. "I played pretty good the first two days, 71-69, was in third position going into the weekend," he says. "That front nine on Saturday killed me. I struggled to hit the ball right to left at Augusta. I didn't drive the ball particularly well. You need to put your ball in the fairway to have a chance to go at the pins. That was the disappointing thing about Augusta."
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