RORY FULL OF ADMIRATION FOR YOUNG AMERICAN'S PERFORMANCE

McILROY IMPRESSED WITH SPIETH'S 

FINAL-ROUND 63 TO WIN AUSSIE OPEN
No one more was impressed with Jordan Spieth’s final-round 63 to win the Australian Open today than his fellow competitor Rory McIlroy who was defending the title at Sydney.
McIlroy finished 15 strokes behind Spieth, and afterward tweeted his admiration for Spieth’s round, saying he (Rory) could play that course hundreds of times and not match Jordan's final round of 63.
McIlroy knows about going low. He shot 62 in the final round to win the 2010 Quail Hollow Championship, tied the lowest-ever round at a major with a 63 at the 2010 British Open, and posted a course-record 61 as a 16-year-old at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.
At 21, Spieth is one of the few players in top-class pro golf who would see 25-year-old McIlroy as an elder statesmen, but McIlroy has embraced that role with Spieth.

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