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Mark Schlabach
Rochester, ny – no one was a more frank supporter of the PGA Tour than Rory McILroy During his current battle with the Liv Golf League.
But it seems that McILroy, a quadruple major champion, finished talking about Liv golf.
At a press conference before this week PGA Championship At the Oak Hill Country Club on Tuesday, a journalist asked McILroy to look at his crystal ball to project where the golf for professional men will be in three years.
“I don’t have a crystal ball,” said McILroy.
“You don’t want to speculate?” The journalist asked McILroy.
“No,” said McILroy.
Later, another journalist asked McILroy if it was going to be a conscious thing for him to get around the story of the golf-pga tour in the future.
“Yeah,” said McILroy.
After missing the Masters cup, a tournament that McILroy needs to win to finish the big home in career, he Sautéed the inheritance RBC In Hilton Head Island, South Carolina next week. It was the second time that an event designated this season has been missing; He also did not play in the Champions Sentry Tournament in Hawaii in January.
According to new PGA Tour directives, a player is only allowed to jump an designated event. Missing a second tournament leads to a player losing 25% of his bonus on the player’s impact program.
Before the Wells Fargo championship two weeks ago, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan confirmed that McILroy, who finished second behind Tiger wood In the PIP race last season, would lose $ 3 million in its $ 12 million bonus.
“When we are committed to this program with the players’ impact program, we adapted to a single opt-out,” said Monahan. “Then, for any second opt-out, you lose 25%, unless there is a medical problem. Based on these criteria, it is actually quite cut and dry.”
It did not seem so cut and dried in McILroy when he was asked to skip the RBC heritage the day before the meeting with Monahan journalists at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, in North Carolina.
“I had my reasons not to play Hilton Head,” said McILroy. “I expressed these to Jay and if he thinks that it is enough to justify. … You know, look, again, I understood the consequences of this decision before having taken it, so whatever happens.”
Tuesday, McILroy, player No. 3 in the world, spoke of trying to overcome the disappointment of not doing the weekend at the Augusta National Golf Club.
“Golf is golf, and it happens and you will have bad days,” said McILroy. “It was not really the performance of Augusta which is difficult to overcome, it is the mental aspect and the deflation of it and to try to make your mind in the right place to start again, I suppose.”
McILroy equaled equally in the 47th row in the Wells Fargo championship with Hollow Quail, where he had won three times. He struck bullets in the water on three of his last five holes and finished even with 19 shots behind the winner Wyndham Clark.
“I think I’m close,” said Mcilroy. “I think I made good progress even of Quail Hollow a few weeks ago. I see better things, better to start lines, (and) certainly just better golf plans. A little safer from where I will start the ball and a kind of more coherent shooting.”
McILroy would end a drought of almost eight years without a great championship victory by winning at Oak Hill this week. He won the last major in the 2014 PGA championship At Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.
McILroy is a member of Oak Hill Country Club, and his wife, Erica, grew up in Rochester.
“You will always have your ups and downs in the game,” said McILroy. “I mean, I have to go there and simply hit good golf strokes and respect the golf course and play on the golf course in the right direction. But no, there is nothing drastic that I have to change. I worked a little on my swing in the past two weeks to try to recover this.
