Top ranked golfer will become fifth player in PGA history to win four consecutive starts
Golfers Tiger Woods (right) and Rory McIlroy share a light moment during a recent event, in Jersey City, New Jersey (USA) (Photo: AP)
Paramus (USA): Top-ranked Rory McIlroy tries to become only the fifth player in PGA history to win four consecutive starts when the season-ending US tour playoffs begin with The Barclays. The 25-year-old won last mont’s British Open and followed with his first World Golf Championships title at Akron, Ohio, before claiming the PGA Championship two weeks ago for his fourth major title.
“Whenever you’re on a run like this, your expectations are sky high,” McIlroy said on Wednesday. “When you get on a run like this and momentum is on your side, a lot of things fall your way,” he added.McIlroy, the first winner of back-to-back majors since Irishman Padraig Harrington in 2008, could join an exclusive list by winning this week at Ridgewood Country Club in suburban New York.
Four players in PGA history have produced win streaks of at least four tournaments, with Byron Nelson claiming the record at 11 wins in 1945, Tiger Woods taking a career-best seven in a row in 2006 and early 2007, Ben Hogan having a run of six in a row in 1948 and Jack Burke winning four straight in 1952.
Woods has had runs of five and six in a row as well as seven and is the only man since Hogan won five in a row in 1953 to win at least four in a row.
( Source : AFP )
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