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Rory McIlroy's 2013 schedule has been a disaster

Rory McIlroy must be fed up to the back teeth with everyone, from Sir Nick Faldo, to the media, giving their opinions on where he has been going wrong.

Yet there is one criticism on which everyone, including the player himself, is agreed. Namely, that his 2013 schedule has been a disaster. This has nothing to do with those around him. Instead, it is all down to the way he is trying to negotiate two circuits at once, his own and Caroline Wozniacki’s.

Things were so much simpler in the days when he went out with an Irish girl named Holly. Then, the only dates which his manager of the day, Chubby Chandler, had to take into account were Holly’s school holidays.

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