subject: Mcilroy Ready For Ryder Cup [print this page] Irishman, Rory McIlroy, has put his disappointment to the back of his mind from Dubai as he will be representing Ireland in the Ryder cup. He will be teaming up with Ryder cup star Graeme McDowell.
The youngster missed out on the race to Dubai to Lee Westwood as he had an unstoppable end of season form. He won the Dubai World championships and topped the Order of Merit. McIlroy did his best to fight him off the tournaments with sub rounds of 70.
McIlroy has recently moved to the top 10 in the world rankings however has the chance to end on an high. He has the chance to come back by playing against some of the best players, these include Henrik Stenson, Robert Karlsson, Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter and Ross Fisher.
"It is very easy to stay motivated at the end of the year. I want to play the best I can for my partner, I don't want to let him down.
"Obviously we are playing for our country, which is a huge honour. I don't think there would be any reason why you wouldn't be motivated," said McIlroy.
"It's a new challenge for me. Graeme has played at Mission Hills before and I'm really looking forward to it.
"It's my first taste of the World Cup and I don't think there should be any reason why I shouldn't be motivated.
"I'm going to go out there and give it my best shot and it would be a great title to win."
McIlroy and McDowell teamed up to win three out of four matches In September and Great Britain and Ireland won the Vivendi Trophy.
"There's a lot of good teams this week, but we know we are one of the favourites coming in," said 30-year-old McDowell, who finished 16th last year with Paul McGinley.
"Obviously you have no given right to be competing this week. You've still got to go out and play golf, and we are going to focus hard on the right attitude and go out and try and have a good time at the weekend.
"It says a lot about Rory, to be able to get himself up for this week. He's obviously disappointed from last week, but I know we'll get on well this week and I know we'll have a good time.
"We are both playing great golf, so it's just a matter of going out there and doing it and keeping the energy levels going."
