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McIlroy's WGC marathon kicks off five-week stretch of competition

SAN FRANCISCO – If you enjoyed your fill of five days, seven matches and 121 holes of Rory McIlroy, here's some good news.

There’s plenty more to come.

Having put a firmer headlock on his World No. 1 ranking, McIlroy said he has designs on cementing it even further because the WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship was the first of five straight tournaments for him.

It was already a certainty that McIlroy would tee it up next week at The Players Championship, but he surprised some folks by committing to the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, N.