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McIlroy is only behind Australian Jason Day in the world
rankings and has won four majors in his career so far, the last
of which came in 2014.
"Rory is one of those young men who has got a tremendous amount
of talent," American Nicklaus told the BBC.
"He has won and played on his talent to this point. If he wishes
to dominate and go forward then he's got to improve. He has to
work hard."
"I mean, whatever Rory does, he has established himself as one
of the great players that has ever played the game.
"Whether he wants to be the greatest player to have played the
game, that's his determination and it's his decision whether he
wants to make that effort to try to do that."
Norther Irishman McIlroy, 27, has won US PGA Championships, a US
Open and the Open but the Masters still eludes him.
"I think he will win the Masters. He certainly has the type of
game that would do well at Augusta and he has done well before
-- he just hasn't finished it," Nicklaus said.
"The media are going to focus on this because he hasn't won it.
He'll win it," the 76-year-old added.
(Reporting by Shravanth Vijayakumar in Bengaluru; editing by
Amlan Chakraborty)
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