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SPORTS A17
Thursday 3 March 2016

Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ire- WOUNDED
land, putts on the 10th green KNEE
during the practice round of
the Cadillac Championship Injury ends
golf tournament, Wednes- World Cup
day, March 2, 2016, in Doral,
Fla. McIlroy, frustrated with his leader
putting, has decided to go Vonn’s
with a cross-handed grip for season
the tournament.
Associated Press Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, slaloms pasta pole during an alpine ski, wom-
en’s World Cup, combined race, in Soldeu, Andorra, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016.
Spieth, Day, Associated Press
McIlroy featured Page 19
group at Cadillac
Championship

TIM REYNOLDS
AP Sports Writer
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Jordan
Spieth, Jason Day and Rory
McIlroy are the top three
players in the world golf
rankings, which assures
them of absolutely nothing
this week.
Doral hasn’t been overly
kind to any of them.
Spieth has been over par in
five of his eight rounds there
over the last two years,
Day has posted two rounds
in the 60s in his last 16 at-
tempts at the Blue Monster,
and McIlroy — who won at
Doral as a 9-year-old — ca-
sually tossed his 3-iron into
the water after a bad shot
last year, a fairly strong in-
dicator of how he would
assess his play.
Yet they’ll have the bulk
of the attention Thursday
when they’ll be in the
same group at the open-
ing round of the Cadillac
Championship, the first of
the four World Golf Cham-
pionships.

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