\t\t\t\tOnly two European golfers have more major wins than Rory McIlroy. One of them, Sir Nick Faldo, has pondered what might be next for golf\u2019s newest Grand Slam champion\u2026<\/p>\n
Sir Nick Faldo has told Rory McIlroy that defending his Masters title will be one of the hardest things he has ever done.<\/p>\n
In 1990, Faldo became just the second player in Masters history to win the Green Jacket<\/a> for a second year in a row. Jack Nicklaus did in in 1966, and only Tiger Woods \u2013 in 2002 \u2013 has gone on to do it since.<\/p>\n McIlroy\u2019s victory in April was as emotionally charged<\/a> as any of the 450 major championships that had preceded it, such was the Northern Irishman\u2019s desperation to slip into our sport\u2019s most famous item of clothing.<\/p>\n And Faldo, who added a third Masters<\/a> title to win six majors overall, says McIlroy should temper expectations as he prepares to head down Magnolia Lane as the defending champion.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is like climbing Everest,\u201d Faldo told the Belfast Telegraph<\/a>. \u201cYou don\u2019t turn around and say, \u2018Let\u2019s go up again next month!\u2019 There was so much emotion at Augusta, and you cannot reproduce the emotion to win a major like that again.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I think it will be tough for Rory to win another one.\u201d<\/p>\n