Masters champion Rory McIlroy is heading Down Under for the first time in more than a decade to play the Australian Open on Melbourne’s famed sandbelt courses for the next two years.

Masters champion Rory McIlroy will play the next two editions of the Australian Open in a major coup for one of golf's oldest tournaments, which has struggled in recent years to get marquee names to undertake the long journey south.

On May 15 the world's best golfers will flock to Quail Hollow in Charlotte, NC for the PGA Championship. Fresh off of completing the career grand slam by winning the Masters in April, Rory McIlroy enters the tournament as the second betting favorite behind world No.