Willett echoes McIlroy’s Zika concerns

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Masters champion Danny Willett has echoed Rory McIlroy’s concerns about competing in the Olympics this year due to the ongoing threat of the Zika virus.

Willett, who won his first major title at Augusta National in April, is set to represent Great Britain in Rio as golf returns to the Games for the first time since 1904.

However, as he contemplates the prospect of having more children after the birth of son Zachariah just 12 days before his Masters triumph, Willett admits to having concerns over Zika and its links to defects in newborn babies.

“We are monitoring it,” Willett told a press conference ahead of …

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