Rory McIlroy parted ways with longtime caddie J.P. Fitzgerald on Monday, a week after the player finished T-4 at Royal Birkdale. The four-time Major winner has not announced his new loop, but we do have an idea on the short-term replacement.
Rory McIlroy has fired J.P. Fitzgerald, the caddie who has been on his bag for all four of his Major titles, according to a Reuters report that cites a source familiar with the matter.
This is getting to be a habit – and not in a good way. For the third time in Rory McIlroy’s past four starts, the Irishman’s golf will not be on public display on a tournament weekend.
There was something eerily familiar about the opening rounds Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy played on the first day of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open at a breezy Dundonald Links.
The narrative of “Is Rory McIlroy’s workout regimen hurting his game?” has become a tired trope to describe any struggles the four-time Major winner runs into.
Rickie Fowler finished tied for fifth at the US Open, his sixth career top-five in the past 24 Majors and first since 2014, when he joined Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only players to finish in the top-five in all four Majors in the same year.
There hasn’t been a repeat winner in the US Open in nearly 30 years, since Curtis Strange in 1989, but it sure looked like the same guy won the championship for a second year in a row.