He will never have it so easy. Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy has regained the world golf crown without having given a stick in the water, that is, without competing. And he did not have it easy. Until yesterday’s world number one, Englishman Luke Donald, only had to finish in the top eight in the RBC Heritage of the American Tour to retain the crown as king of world golf, at least according to the statistics of the rankings. However, Donald’s disappointing performance in that American tournament has returned the world number one to McIlroy. The Englishman finished 16 strokes behind the winner, the Swede Pettersson, and far from the top of the rankings that would have kept him at the top of the world ranking. The Northern Irishman is taking it easy and is not too worried about fighting to be the world number one. In fact, he took the week off after the Masters – he took the opportunity to travel to Copenhagen to visit his girlfriend, Caroline Wozniacki – and plans to stay away from competition for a couple more weeks, to reappear at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. McIlroy also showed his emotions on Twitter: “Another time number one without touching a golf club this week… wish it was that easy.” The record for the longest tenure at number one is held by Tiger Woods, with 281 consecutive weeks and almost double that over the course of his career.
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