Intro:

World number one Rory McIlroy praises Masters champion Jordan Spieth before Wednesday's World Golf Championships Matchplay in San Francisco, America.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Rory McIlroy (on a rivalry with Jordan Spieth)

"I was definitely inspired by watching what he did at Augusta, the way he, especially there, he finished second last year and to come straight back the year after and put on a performance like he did, it was really impressive. Yes, it's great. We're one and two in the world right now and I think it's very important as well, I said this after, it's very important to get your Major tally up and running at an early stage in your career. You look at the history of the guys that have won a lot of majors predominantly that's what they've done. So I think that was important too. It's hard, I've got asked questions about a rivalry building for a couple of weeks and golf's hard to, you look at Tiger (Woods) and Phil (Mickelson) they went head to head maybe just a handful of times over the space of 15 years, so you never really know how much you're going to go head to head against someone, but it would be great to if it's two of us if it's four, if it's five, if there's a bunch of us that are competing for tournaments week in week out it can only be good for golf."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Jordan Spieth (asked if he is a rival of Rory McIlroy):

"I still think I have a long way to go to where I could be considered that. I think I'm off to a good start. I don't like to think much about it because his success, I can't compare what I've done to what he's done. Certainly he's had some more years to do so, but still in order to have a rivalry you almost need, we need to be competing against each other consistently at the highest level. And that hasn't happened yet."