LONDON: Grand Slam-pursuing Rory McIlroy won't play the conventional Par 3 challenge on the eve of one week from now's US
Aces since it is "just a lot of bother".
The Northern Irishman portrayed the casual nine-gap occasion as "somewhat of a diversion" as he tries to arrive a fifth major and a first at Augusta to finish the arrangement of each of the four of golf's fundamental titles.
The 26-year-old last skirted the Par 3 challenge in 2011, the year he drove the Masters by four shots going into the most recent day before giving way to a last cycle 80 to complete fifteenth.
"The year I had my most obvious opportunity at Augusta, 2011, I didn't play the Par 3 challenge, so perhaps the choice not to play it this year can work to support me," the world number three said.
The Par 3 occasion, played over Augusta National's short course around Ike's Pond, regularly includes big names or players' youngsters as caddies.
McIlroy had One Direction vocalist Niall Horan as his visitor caddie a year ago and his then fiancee Caroline Wozniacki did the occupation in 2014.
McIlroy went to Augusta a year ago in the midst of a free for all of buildup encompassing his first opportunity to finish the great pummel and he completed a profession best fourth, six shots behind champion Jordan Spieth.
This year he has picked not to visit Augusta for a scouting mission in front of the competition and will land on Sunday evening prepared for practice rounds on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
"Contrasted with a year prior and all the buildup of winning the Grand Slam, I as of now feel somewhat more smooth and significantly more chilled," he was cited as saying on Sky Sports.
McIlroy achieved the semi-finals of the WGC-Dell Match Play in Texas on Sunday, however last won in November 2015 and has been eclipsed for this present year by some of his opponents at the highest point of the rankings.
Australian Jason Day, who beat safeguarding champion McIlroy in Austin to backtrack to world number one, won the Match Play the week subsequent to securing the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
His comrade Adam Scott, who secured the Masters in 2013, has won twice in 2016, while twofold Masters victor Bubba Watson and safeguarding champion Spieth have additionally triumphed this season.
"There's significantly additionally going ahead around others contending in the Masters this year as of now than the spotlight I got myself a year back," included McIlroy, who won the US Open in 2011, the British Open in 2014 and the US PGA in 2012 and 2014.
Just five players — Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods — have won every one of the four of golf's advanced majors following the US Masters was presented in 1934. The Masters happens at Augusta National, Georgia, from April 7-10.
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