MCILROY READY TO MAKE WAVES IN AMERICA

Look out America - Irish teenage sensation Rory McIlroy is coming your way.
After his thrilling one-stroke victory in the Dubai Desert Classic, McIlroy has climbed to 16th in the Official World Golf Ranking in less than 18 months as a professional.
At the end of August last year, he stood 172nd.
The boy wonder has achieved it without once stepping foot in the United States, but that is about to change.
McIlroy, just the sixth teenager to win a European Tour event and described as "a superstar in the making" by new Ryder Cup Captain Colin Montgomerie, will make his World Golf Championships debut at the Accenture Match Play in Arizona in three weeks´ time. Then he travels to Florida and Texas, before heading to Georgia for the big one - his first Masters Tournament at Augusta on April 9-12.
Having thought a World Top-20 spot was a reasonable target to have for the end of the year, not the first week in February, McIlroy admitted: "I´ll have to reassess my goals.
After spraying champagne Lewis Hamilton-style at a party given in his honour by his main Dubai-based sponsors. McIlroy flew home with his proud parents and did indeed discover that not everything will run smoothly from now on.
Their flight from the Middle East managed to land despite all the snow, but the connection to Belfast was cancelled - and they were eventually driven to Birmingham and flew from there.
McIlroy’s victory was his eighth top-ten finish in his last 13 starts. That included two play-off defeats, and he was mightily relieved he did not have to go into a third.
Runner-up Rose, of course, began his pro career with 21 successive missed cuts. It took him almost a year to earn his first cheque on the course. McIlroy, still three months away from his 20th birthday, is already heading towards his second million.