- Rory McILroy looks in a tidy form before the American PGA championship of this month
- In the Truist championship, he followed his first round 66 with a 67 in the second round
- Before the third round on Saturday, he was seven years old under the peer and five behind the leader
In the absence of a green transplant monkey on the back, the most Rory McILroy needs to face the second major of the season of the season next week seems to be the strange rust patch on his swing.
According to his performances during the final warm-up of the Truisist championship in Philadelphia, even they are far from significant. From his third round on Saturday, he was fourth, so we can probably conclude any suspicion of a face of sustained mastery wood.
Aside from a few loose approaches, its implementation and conduct are mainly in the right Nick, which augurs well for the American PGA championships of Quail Hollow. Not that he needs a second invitation to attack a monstrously long song from North Carolina where he has won four times before.
Such was the domination of McILroy during 7,626 yards, Jordan Spieth had a new name in the conversation with the world number 2 earlier this week: Rory McILroy Country Club.
With the length of the length he has of the tee and the relative lack of penalty for minor brips in the precision of driving, the status of McILroy as a favorite is justified, although the victories for Scottie Scheffler and Bryson Dechambeau last weekend in the PGA Tour and the Liv allow respectively an intriguing convergence of the stars in forms.
An equal interest is the way McILroy reacts to finally finished his masterpiece in Augusta. The theory says that after having completed the quarry of Majors and ending an expectation of 11 years for his fifth, he will now start towards six majors with revenge. The double US Open Curtis Strange has already raised this week the prospect that McILroy takes the four in a calendar year.
Rory McILroy pulled a round of three under 67 at the Philadelphia Truist Championship on Saturday
This followed a round of 66 Friday, leaving McILroy Seven under the peer at the stadium halfway
McILroy finally won the Masters and the famous green jacket at Augusta National last month
Golf has never seen this feat before, but the McILroy media gear is used to inspire ridiculous predictions. His challenge, a week after being 36 years old, was to recalibrate to Augusta and rely on a season which also included victories on substantial tour in Pebble Beach and in the players’ championship.
McILroy said him himself, adding: “Listen, obviously that (the masters) at the forefront of everyone because of what it meant and the way I did it and all that. For me, it’s great that I was able to do it. It’s not that I leave it in the rear view mirror, but I have a lot of golfy this year. I really want to try to focus on this.
“We all have our own challenges, and if my challenge is to try to focus on the present and not to think of a dream come true a few weeks ago, then it’s a very good challenge to have.”
An element useful for this purpose was to resist any temptation to reintegrate into the disorderly golf policy. It remains at the PGA Tour Transactions Committee, intended for endless discussions with the Saudis, but after being refused to return to their board of directors last summer, there is no coincidence concerning the improvements of its form.
As McILroy said on Friday evening: “I am certainly not too involved in the policy of everything. I think that at this stage, I don’t care. I want to play golf, and the reason why I entered this game was to shoot scores and try to play the best possible golf course and not be really concerned about the way the tour takes place or the business of the tour. I’m happy with the place where I’m right now.
Stability before this part of the season is notable. Aside this week in Philadelphia and a team event alongside Shane Lowry in New Orleans, the month of McILroy from the Masters was discreet.
This included a trip with his wife and daughter to see the house they are building in Surrey and a visit to his parents in Northern Ireland, but he was shot while golf irons are hot. Compared to that time a year ago, when the divorce procedure was planned, there seems to be less luggage attached to McILroy than in recent years.
Quail Hollow offers the potential to transform these circumstances into a whole new level of media threw for this last stage of McILroy’s career.
