This week there is a different vibe. If it amounts nothing, so be it, but McIlroy’s path is clear, the omens are good and Valhalla is his to conquer.
According to Rory McIlroy, Jimmy Dunne’s exit from the PGA Tour’s policy board is not a positive development.
While all eyes will be on Rory McIlroy the player, it’s time to extend the same grace to Rory McIlroy, the person and public entity, has given to us.
Thirteen years after his first major victory, McIlroy’s potential is still more intriguing than his prodigious accomplishments.
LIV Golf commissioner Greg Norman has addressed rumours his league offered superstar Rory McIlroy a $A1.3 billion deal ($US850 million) to join the circuit.
McIlroy said he doesn’t know the origin of the rumours, and was careful to note that he didn’t judge anyone who had previously gone to LIV, or might in the future.
According to sources close to the matter, LIV Golf executives have put forth a staggering $850 million offer to entice the world No.2, along with approximately two percent equity stake in the LIV Golf League.
Professional golf needs a shot in the arm. Either result would help deliver it.
McIlroy swapped his 4-iron, going from TaylorMade’s P760 model to a prototype with a muscle cavity after a visit to TaylorMade’s test centre in Carlsbad, California.
Since his epic back-nine collapse in 2011 that torpedoed what would have been a wire-to-wire victory, McIlroy hasn’t given himself many chances at the Masters.
Rory McIlroy has softened his stance on LIV Golf in recent months, but that doesn’t mean the PGA Tour star has any plans of ever joining the Saudi-backed golf league.
Rory McIlroy is giving LIV Golf’s Talor Gooch a mulligan. Well, almost.
With an announcement imminent that the tour has agreed to a reported $3 billion investment deal with Strategic Sports Group – with PIF still also in the picture – McIlroy said the men’s professional game that became bifurcated by LIV Golf’s inception in 2022 must reassemble.
The about-face from McIlroy on the issue was something that was noted by commenters on social media.
There wasn’t much that went wrong for Europe during its latest Ryder Cup romp on home soil. It turns out, the ensuing celebration was a different story.
Maybe a little inebriated on the adrenaline of the occasion, the four-time major champion chose the winning European side’s post-match press conference at Marco Simone to make a rather bold announcement.
For four-time major winner Rory McIlroy, nothing seems to compare to the Ryder Cup – especially when Europe wins on home soil like Sunday in Rome.
Rory McIlroy has been seen yelling at a person while arguing with caddie Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay as he was leaving Marco Simone.
It’s not often that fan-favourite Jordan Spieth hears boos ring out around him, but Ryder Cups are a different breed. When you’re representing the US on European soil, even somewhat boring rules exchanges like this one take on some added tension. And that’s what we saw on Saturday morning at the Ryder Cup. The exchange Read more…
Fitzpatrick and McIlroy’s gallery looked and sounded more like an AS Roma soccer match than a Ryder Cup four-ball.
The Ryder Cup is one of the rare times golf – a sport that pulls for all of its competitors – turns provincial. Wyndham Clark is well aware of this dynamic, which is why he expertly quelled an attempt to turn his recents comments into a controversy.
Rory McIlroy can’t seem to escape the topic of LIV Golf. But of all weeks in professional golf, the topic of the rival league was always going to come up at the Ryder Cup, given the impact Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia had on the European team over the past 20 years before joining LIV Read more…