Northern Irish golf ace Rory McIlroy has claimed that he is still the world's best golfer despite failing to complete a career Grand Slam after finishing fourth in the Masters on Sunday.
And as per the rankings, McIlroy is right. American Jordan Spieth won the Masters to become the second youngest golfer to achieve the feat after Tiger Woods, but the highest he could go in the world rankings was at world number two.
And McIlroy believes that that was how it should be, regardless of the fact that if the rankings were worked out over six months instead of two years then Spieth would already have been on top, Stuff.co.nz reported.
McIlroy won back-to-back Majors with a WGC title in between for good measure last year. But funnily enough things happen very quickly in golf and McIlroy's mediocre form since starting the -season with a first and second in the UAE has twisted the pecking order, but not to the Northern Irishman.
The world number one said that he just has to worry about himself and try to play the best that he can, adding that he knows that if he does that then that number one position is pretty safe.
McIlroy said that Spieth has obviously been playing great golf since the end of last year with a couple of wins and being in contention basically every time he plays, adding that the American is playing very well, but the Northern Irishman insisted that he knows that he has the capability to do the same thing.
