Rory McIlroy said that his hopes of finally winning the Masters were still alive thanks to playing partner Jordan Spieth's stumbles over the last two holes of the third round. Standing on the 17th tee, the Northern Irishman, who needs a win at Augusta National to become just the sixth player to win all four major titles, was eight shots adrift of his playing partner, having started the day just one behind him. The gap was down to five, a difficult but not impossible deficit to make up on Sunday, McIlroy having seen his own four-shot lead over the field vanish in double-quick time in the final round of 2011.
