Rory McIlroy stays positive ahead of The Players Championship

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Rory McIlroy is five years removed from winning The Players Championship.

McIlroy will look to add his name to an exclusive list of multi-time winners of the event when he tees off at TPC Sawgrass on Thursday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.

"Fortunately, there's not many places I go now where I'm not a past winner, so it's nice," McIlroy said during Wednesday's media scrum. The