The statistic we care most about in golf, as fans and writers and players and sponsors and any other role you can imagine, is wins. It's the broadest statistic of them all, and maybe not the best in determining history’s most talented golfers,

Rory McIlroy’s pursuit of back-to-back majors and keeping alive hopes of the yearly grand slam have been dealt an early blow. McIlroy captured the imagination of the sporting world when he won his first-ever green jacket last month, defeating Ryder Cup team-mate Justin Rose in a dramatic play-off at Augusta.