Rory McIlroy and partner Shane Lowry shot a eight-under-par 64 which left them six off the pace as they began the defence of their Zurich Classic title. With the Masters champion struggling on the opening nine as Lowry kept them in contention after they had started at the 10th, McIlroy said he “didn’t do anything”...
Rory McIlroy says he has been touched by how his journey to winning the career Grand Slam has resonated with people from “all walks of life” as he revealed he spoke with two US presidents after his Masters victory. McIlroy returns to action this week as he defends the Zurich Classic of New Orleans title...
McIlroy’s next chance to add to his major tally comes next month in the US PGA Championship. It is being staged from 15-18 May at North Carolina’s Quail Hollow – a course he has won at four times. He will then head to Oakmont in Pennsylvania from 12-15 June for the US Open. McIlroy has...
Darbon also reaffirmed the R&A’s desire to take the Open outside of the United Kingdom for the first time, to Portmarnock in Dublin. “We’re really excited about the investigative work we’re doing at Portmarnock and pleased with the support we’re receiving from local authorities and the government,” he said. “We have a lot of work...
Shane Lowry has confirmed newly crowned Masters champion Rory McIlroy will return to defend the pair’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans title in Louisiana next week. McIlroy has returned home to Northern Ireland after skipping this week’s RBC Heritage event on the PGA Tour following his career Grand Slam-clinching success at Augusta National. But Lowry...
Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim wants Rory McIlroy to bring a winning feeling to Old Trafford following his Masters golf triumph. United supporter McIlroy said after he won a career grand slam at Augusta National that he would take his Green Jacket to the stadium “if it can inspire some better play”. The Red Devils...
Following the Zurich Classic two-man event in New Orleans, McIlroy will only have a three-week wait before the season’s second major, the US PGA Championship, which will take place at a Quail Hollow venue where he has already triumphed on four occasions. And after ending his 11-year major drought amid an extraordinary finale in Georgia,...
Northern Ireland’s McIlroy beat England’s Justin Rose in a sudden-death play-off, after a dramatic final round that saw him blow a four-shot lead at one stage and miss a par putt on the 18th to win in regulation. “If you watched Rory, he was very locked into his own world. It’s just you and the...
Graeme McDowell says “it could be incredible what Rory McIlroy will achieve in the sport” following his dramatic career Grand Slam-clinching Masters triumph. McDowell, the 2010 US Open champion, said he was among the millions of TV viewers who “lived every shot with him” during Sunday’s rollercoaster of a final round at Augusta as he...
The jacket was a perfect fit, a deeper green than you might imagine and in that moment came the realisation that he had actually done it. The burden had lifted, never again would we be able to ask the questions that had nagged him for more than a decade. Now, aged 35, he is an...
Watch as a young Rory McIlroy speaks to BBC Sport NI in 1998 about his ambition of turning pro and winning all of golf’s major championships, a dream he finally achieved with Sunday’s win at the Masters. McIlroy’s coach Michael Bannon also tells BBC Sport NI of his belief that McIlroy is destined for big...
Hurt. Pride. Optimisim. Justin Rose’s three takeaways from last week’s stunning Masters performance, where he was beaten by Grand Slam-winning Rory McIlory in a play-off, are ones that he feels will propel him to greater heights in the game. Hurt because he’s a professional and nobody likes losing. Pride in the way he finished the...
There isn’t enough deception in football tactics. There are the ‘dark arts’ of defending, the dummy and the no-look pass. But where are the Trojan horses, the tactical decoys? Players are getting more versatile all the time and (most) managers are too, regularly changing formation between matches and within them. In fact, a lot of...
McIlroy came out on top after a dramatic final day which saw him regroup from missing a putt which would have secured victory on the 18th to beat Rose in a sudden-death play-off. “When I hit the ball in the water on 13 I had a look at the board and I saw I was...
Rory McIlroy calls winning his first Masters title and completing the career Grand Slam “a dream come true”. And after waiting so long to complete that Grand Slam, he began his media conference with a question of his own. READ MORE: McIlroy beats Rose in Masters play-off to seal career Grand Slam Read full article...