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Rory McIlroy: ‘Nobody is entitled to anything in golf. You have to earn it’
Evidence of Rory McIlroy’s exalted status can arrive when you least expect. Ask him, for example, if anyone out of the ordinary got in touch in the aftermath of his excruciating conclusion to the US Open. McIlroy does not disappoint. “Rafa Nadal and …