When Rory McIlroy won at the Dubai Desert Classic and became the 7th youngest player to win on the European Tour, we threw up a caution flag about getting too attached to the young N. Irishman's success.  It sounds like people aren't listening.

Shane Bacon of Dogs That Chase Cars and Fanhouse's golf blog explains:

You see, Sergio came into view around the same age. Garcia won his first European Tour event at 20 and became one of the more popular players on tour when he battled Woods at Medinah in the PGA Championship the same year. People raved, in the same way they do about Rory, about Garcia's ability to just hit the ball the way it should be struck.

Here's my point, which most people disagree on. To me, Garcia's career has been rather disappointing. He has won a Players and six other PGA Tour events. He is No. 2 in the world right now. He's a damn fine golfer who will be around for a long time. It's just that the expectations people forced on us from the time he could barely grow facial hair were so outrageous that we expected him to win the Masters by 13 shots his first time out as a pro. He was supposed to. That's how good Sergio was.

Consider that Rory, yes, only 19, has choked away two European Tour events already.  Shane does in his analysis.  The lad is still learning to win consistently.  Sergio never has but his career legend has been supplemented by his Ryder Cup performances.

Here is the bottom line about Rory, seven time PGA Tour (15 times in total) winner Sergio Garcia, and the comparisons to Tiger:

The success might come, but it is worth noting -- we've still only see one Tiger Woods, and that is because there is only one of that guy. Golf is hard. Not everyone can win all the time.

Tiger has won 65 PGA Tour starts, 11 times internationally (7 on the Euro Tour as a part time non-member), and 13 other tournaments that were not directly sanctioned by a Tour.  Add it up, that's 89 wins.  Rory is at one.  Lay off for a bit.