CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The first time Rory McIlroy recalls watchingthe Masters on TV was in 1996. And like any other 6-year-old alreadysmitten with the game, he no doubt dreamed of being on that stagehimself one day.
Sure enough, he was. Only he didn't play the role of his golfingidol, Nick Faldo, who rallied from a six-shot deficit with a 67 towin a third green jacket. He was more like Greg Norman.
So perhaps it was only fitting that Norman, whose 78 in the finalround of 1996 gets more attention than the two majors he won, wasamong the first to call the 21-year-old from Northern Ireland.
McIlroy turned a four-shot lead into a collapse that even …
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