Do Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott, Tiger Woods Deserve to Be 2014 Masters Favorites?

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Published: March 25, 2014

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One of these things is not like the other.

Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott and Tiger Woods are being mentioned prominently as favorites in the Masters, the first major championship of the season.

Two of those guys deserve to be in that conversation. One does not.

In 2011, McIlroy was the leader at Augusta National through 63 holes.

He followed that crushing experience on the back nine with T40 and T25 finishes the last two years. Those are hardly the kinds of numbers that would generate a great deal of confidence in McIlroy and his chances.

But his game is definitely on the upswing (he's posted a pair of top-10 finishes this year), and he's definitely much closer to the guy who was once the best player in the world, according to Official World Golf Rankings.

McIlroy is hardly perfect, as he showed in blowing a win at the Honda Classic with another back-nine meltdown.



Adam Scott became the first Australian to win the Masters last April. He did so with power, grace and finesse and was great under pressure.

It's true there hasn't been a successful Masters defense since 2001-02 when Woods was making the PGA Tour his personal playground and gold mine.

Scott hasn't turned out to be one of the players (see Bubba Watson) who win a big tournament and then put their game in neutral and become non-factors in majors.

He finished 2013 with a pair of wins in Australia and has played well in five PGA Tour starts this year. True, he blew the seven-shot lead he amassed in the Arnold Palmer Invitational that featured an ugly display of putting.

He's definitely worthy of being listed among the favorites.

And that brings us to the one who isn't like the other two: Tiger Woods.

To put him in proper perspective, there needs to be a two-part discussion.

The first part involves his play and how that has created the rec...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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