![]() ![]() But no, there's nothing drastic that I need to change. "I mean, I have to go out there and just hit good golf shots and respect the golf course and play the golf course the right way. "You're always going to have your ups and downs in the game," McIlroy said. McIlroy is a member of Oak Hill Country Club, and his wife, Erica, grew up in Rochester. He last won a major at the 2014 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. McIlroy would end a nearly eight-year drought without a major championship victory by winning at Oak Hill this week. A little more sure of where I'm going to start the ball and sort of a more consistent shot pattern." I'm seeing some better things, better start lines, certainly just some better golf shots. "I think I've made some good strides even from Quail Hollow a couple weeks ago. He hit balls into the water on three of his last five holes and finished even par, 19 shots behind winner Wyndham Clark. McIlroy tied for 47th at the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow, where he had won three previous times. "It wasn't really the performance of Augusta that's hard to get over, it's the mental aspect and the deflation of it and sort of trying to get your mind in the right place to start going forward again, I guess." "Golf is golf, and it happens and you're going to have bad days," McIlroy said. 3-ranked player in the world, talked about trying to get over the disappointment of not making the weekend at Augusta National Golf Club. You know, look, again, I understood the consequences of that decision before I made it, so whatever happens, happens." "I expressed those to Jay and whether he thinks that is enough to warrant. "I had my reasons not to play Hilton Head," McIlroy said. ![]() It didn't seem so cut-and-dry to McIlroy when he was asked about skipping the RBC Heritage the day before Monahan met with reporters at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. Based on that criteria, it's actually fairly cut-and-dry." "Then for any second opt-out, you forfeit the 25%, unless there was a medical issue. "When we made the commitment to this schedule with the Player Impact Program, we adjusted for one opt-out," Monahan said. Missing a second tournament results in a player losing 25% of his Player Impact Program bonus.īefore the Wells Fargo Championship two weeks ago, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan confirmed that McIlroy, who finished second behind Tiger Woods in the PIP race last season, would forfeit $3 million of his $12 million bonus. Under the PGA Tour's new guidelines, a player is only allowed to skip one designated event. It was the second time he missed a designated event this season he also did not play in the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii in January. Later, a different reporter asked McIlroy if it was going to be a conscious thing for him to sidestep the LIV Golf-PGA Tour narrative going forward.Īfter missing the cut at the Masters, a tournament McIlroy needs to win to complete the career Grand Slam, he skipped the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, the next week. "You don't want to speculate?" the reporter asked McIlroy. "I don't have a crystal ball," McIlroy said. No one has been a more outspoken proponent of the PGA Tour than Rory McIlroy during its ongoing battle with the LIV Golf League.īut it seems that McIlroy, a four-time major champion, is done talking about LIV Golf.ĭuring a news conference ahead of this week's PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club on Tuesday, McIlroy was asked by a reporter to look into his crystal ball to project where professional men's golf will be in three years. Outspoken Rory McIlroy suddenly quiet on the topic of LIV Golf You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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