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Tom Sunderland & David Coleman

Rory McIlroy makes emotional plea to Tiger Woods as he lifts lid on close relationship with 'hero'

Rory McIlroy has urged his hero Tiger Woods to keep on golfing in the hopes he can return to the famous St Andrews course in Scotland.

Icon Tiger bowed out of the 150th Open Championship in underwhelming circumstances on Friday, but Rory McIlroy hopes that's not the last we'll see of him at St. Andrews.

Woods, 46, failed to make the cut at The Open for just the fourth time in his career and left the competition after scoring nine-over par across the first two rounds. It's a far cry from the form that once saw him lift the Claret Jug on three occasions, two of which materialised on the Old Course.

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