Just over a week ago, Adam Scott joined Rory McIlroy for a scouting mission at Oakmont Country Club. Descriptions of the world’s toughest golf course seem credible when you hear two Masters champions played well, and were still given an absolute bollocking by the Pittsburgh area course.
The topic of Rory McIlroy’s driver has been red-hot after his big dog was deemed non-conforming during the week of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow.
If Oakmont Country Club represents one of the most difficult tests in professional golf, in at least one sense it will be starkly simple: a shot from the fairway means a player can think about how he wants to play the shot to the green, whereas a ball in the rough will suggest he shouldn’t even bother.
In his first start since his worst finish this season – a T-47 in the PGA Championship – the reigning Masters champion suffered an extremely rare setback – he missed the cut at the RBC Canadian Open.
Rory McIlroy entered the PGA Championship as the king of the sport, fresh off his Masters conquest that conferred the career Grand Slam and answered all the questions that have followed him for the past decade. But what should have been a victory lap at Quail Hollow turned into an odd week with a disappointing Read more…
The PGA Tour’s signature event model that Rory McIlroy helped to create in 2022 in response to the LIV Golf League incursion into men’s golf appears to not be working for some players—most notably Rory McIlroy.
The PGA of America released a statement overnight (Australian time) confirming it had conducted random driver testing on about a third of the field ahead of this week’s PGA Championship and hinting that some of those drivers might have been deemed non-conforming.
Rory McIlroy had to switch drivers at the PGA Championship after his ‘gamer’ was deemed non-conforming, according to a report by SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio’s Jason Sobel.
Masters champion and career grand slam winner Rory McIlroy’s commitment to play in the Australian Open in Melbourne has blown tournament officials away with “unprecedented” ticket sales coming in the first 24 hours.
It’s not that Rory McIlroy hasn’t watched some of the highlights of his final round and emotional reaction to winning the Masters in April. It’s just not something he wants running in a loop in his head.