The six-time Major winner admitted he was "wrong" to call for a merger between the PGA Tour and Saudi PIF while reacting to LIV Golf losing its funding source

McIlroy eschewed starts at the RBC Heritage, Zurich Classic and Cadillac Championship so that he could better prepare for the season’s second major at a venue that McIlroy had only seen once.

Here, Rory McIlroy was very much at ease, dressed in shorts and hoodie without any headwear and the laces on his Nike Airs undone so that the right foot from where he’d self-extracted the nail on his little toe had some room to manoeuvre.

Rory McIlroy has taken many positions on LIV Golf since its emergence in 2022, from blaming it for a schism in professional golf to softening his stance on the players who chose to play there and to saying a PGA Tour-LIV deal would be the best way forward.

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Rory McIlroy brings a sharper mental focus into the 108th PGA Championship that tees off Thursday at Aronimink than he had a year ago after a historic Masters triumph. "Especially after the last couple of years,

It’s a shame that Donald Ross, the ingenious golf course architect from humble beginnings in the north of Scotland, never got to see Rory McIlroy.

The Northern Irishman is this week bidding to become just the fifth player since 1960 to win the first two majors of the year.