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Daily Mail
6 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
'P****d' Rory McIlroy breaks cover after silence since PGA Championship humbling
Rory McIlroy has broken cover nearly a month after his humbling performance at the PGA Championship, getting ready for the RBC Canadian Open at the driving range. The Northern Irishman had not been seen publicly since his tied-for-47th place finish at Quail Hollow, a month after his Masters triumph, which broke his major-less streak of over a decade. McIlroy was in the Greater Toronto area on Wednesday ahead of this week's event, practicing his drives before speaking with the media. The 36-year-old did not speak with the media after each round of the PGA Championship, with a leak of his driver being tested as part of a normal procedure after the second round in North Carolina. While the procedure is normal, it being publicized is not, with it being the first-such leak since 2019. McIlroy detailed his thought process, including being tight-lipped on behalf of world No 1 Scottie Scheffler. 'Yeah, look, the PGA was a bit of a weird week. I didn't play well. I didn't play well the first day, so I wanted to go practice, so that was fine,' McIlroy said Wednesday. 'Second day we finished late. I wanted to go back and see Poppy before she went to bed. The driver news broke. I didn't really want to speak on that.' Rory's back. — Adam Stanley (@adam_stanley) June 4, 2025 'Saturday I was supposed to tee off at 8:20 in the morning. I didn't tee off until almost 2:00 in the afternoon, another late finish, was just tired, wanted to go home. Then Sunday, I just wanted to get on the plane and go back to Florida.' 'Yeah, look, and also the driver stuff, there was… I was a little p****d off because I knew that Scottie's driver had failed on Monday, but my name was the one that was leaked. It was supposed to stay confidential. Two members of the media were the ones that leaked it.' 'Again, I didn't want to get up there and say something that I regretted, either, because there's a lot of people that - I'm trying to protect Scottie. I don't want to mention his name. I'm trying to protect TaylorMade. I'm trying to protect the USGA, PGA of America, myself. I just didn't want to get up there and say something that I regretted.' 'With Scottie's stuff, that's not my information to share. I knew that that had happened, but that's not on me to share that, and I felt that process is supposed to be kept confidential, and it wasn't for whatever reason. That's why I was pretty annoyed at that. From a responsibility standpoint, look, I understand, but if we all wanted to, we could all bypass you guys and we could just go on this and we could go on social media and we could talk about our round and do it our own way.' 'I think there should be an understanding that this is a two-way street, and as much as we need to speak to you guys, we're sort of - like we understand the benefit that comes from you being here and giving us the platform and everything else. So I understand that.' 'But again, I've been beating this drum for a long time. If they want to make it mandatory, that's fine, but in our rules it says that it's not, and until the day that that's maybe written into the regulations, you're going to have guys skip from time to time, and that's well within our rights.' At last year's Canadian Open, McIlroy's strong final round was not enough to win the event after beginning Sunday seven strokes behind the leader. Two months removed from McIlroy's joyous win at Augusta National, he'll try to win another event and move past the driver leak.
Washington Post
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
US Open field starts to take shape through world ranking and qualifying
One day after Scottie Scheffler captured his third major at the PGA Championship, the 156-man field for the U.S. Open began to take shape Monday with 27 players added through the world ranking and qualifiers being held on three continents. Among the 36 players now exempt from qualifying are Davis Riley and Joe Highsmith, both doing well enough in the final round of the PGA Championship to move into the top 60 in the world ranking.
Associated Press
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
US Open field starts to take shape through world ranking and qualifying
One day after Scottie Scheffler captured his third major at the PGA Championship, the 156-man field for the U.S. Open began to take shape Monday with 27 players added through the world ranking and qualifiers being held on three continents. Among the 36 players now exempt from qualifying are Davis Riley and Joe Highsmith, both doing well enough in the final round of the PGA Championship to move into the top 60 in the world ranking. The U.S. Open is June 12-15 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, where Dustin Johnson won his first major. Johnson played a practice round that week with Scheffler, who was 19 and making his U.S. Open debut. Scheffler opened with 69, then shot 78 and missed the cut. LIV Golf added four more of its players to the field when Jinichiro Kozuma was among three players who made it through the Japan qualifier. Joaquin Niemann was added as the leading player on LIV points, while the top 60 in the world added Tyrrell Hatton and Patrick Reed. Sergio Garcia and Abraham Ancer were among players playing in the 36-hole qualifier in Dallas. Most of the final qualifying is scheduled for June 2 across the U.S. and in Canada. The field of exempt players — not including the qualifying sites — was 85 players, a little higher than normal for a U.S. Open that strives to have about half the field (78 players) qualify. Riley, Highsmith, Jhonattan Vegas and Si Woo Kim each moved into the top 60 in the world in the final week. Riley was in contention when he took a triple bogey on the seventh hole. He was 4 over for his round at that point, but played bogey-free the rest of the way to tie for second. That was enough to move him from No. 100 into the top 60 at 53rd in the world. Ditto for Highsmith, who played bogey-free with three birdies over the final 12 holes to move up nine spots to No. 60. That bumped Laurie Canter, though he became exempt for being the highest-ranked player on the European tour points list not already eligible. The only other exempt spot available is the NCAA men's individual champion, which will be decided May 26 at La Costa Resort in California. ___ AP golf:
Al Jazeera
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Al Jazeera
Scheffler pulls away from Rahm for runaway PGA Championship victory
Scottie Scheffler held off a spirited effort by Spain's Jon Rahm to secure a five-shot PGA Championship victory at Quail Hollow Club for his third career major title. The top-ranked Scheffler, who was three shots clear of Swede Alex Noren at the start of the day, struggled off the tee early on Sunday but righted the ship in time for the back nine to card an even-par 71 that left him at 11 under for the week. 'I knew it was going to be a challenging day, finishing off a major championship is always challenging,' Scheffler said on the 18th green after being presented with the Wanamaker Trophy. 'I didn't have my best stuff … but stepped it up on the back nine.' Ryder Cup hopeful Harris English, who began his day 11 shots adrift, shot a 65 that was the low round of the day and finished in a distant share of second place alongside fellow Americans Bryson DeChambeau (70) and Davis Riley (72). Twice major champion Rahm (73) gave Scheffler a scare early on the back nine but came apart in stunning fashion with five dropped shots over his final three holes to slide back into a share of eighth place. Rahm, who began the day five shots back of the lead and playing two groups ahead of Scheffler, took a while to get going in the final round but found his groove right in time to set up some back-nine drama at Quail Hollow Club. The Spaniard joined Scheffler atop the leaderboard when, at the par-four 11th, he made his third birdie over a four-hole stretch, but Scheffler reclaimed the outright lead with a 9-foot birdie at the 10th moments later. Rahm nearly answered right back, but his perfectly paced 19-foot birdie attempt at the par-three 13th curled around and out of the cup before going on to misread birdie putts at the next two holes, followed by his brutal closing stretch. Scheffler added birdies at 14 and 15 and then saw his lead suddenly grow to five over JT Poston after Rahm made double-bogey at the par-three 17th, where he blasted his tee shot into the water. 'It's a tough pill to swallow right now,' said Rahm. 'Pretty fresh wound right now. But there's been a lot of good happening this week and a lot of positive feelings to take for the rest of the year.' US Open champion DeChambeau, who finished runner-up at last year's PGA Championship, was driving the ball and giving himself chances, but struggled on the greens. 'I felt like I had the game to win this week, and the golf course suited me pretty well, missed a few putts coming down the stretch and got a little unlucky in this great game of golf,' said DeChambeau. 'It was a good fight, good battle, take a lot from it. It's just burning a bigger fire in my belly.' Noren, playing alongside Scheffler and alone in second place to start the day, stayed in the mix until his round unravelled with a trio of bogeys early on the back nine. Scheffler took home a $3.42m top prize from a record $19m purse.
The Independent
19-05-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Scottie Scheffler reveals he fell foul of driver rules before powering to PGA Championship triumph
Scottie Scheffler hailed his mentality as his greatest strength after overcoming the challenge of Jon Rahm and having to change a non-conforming driver to win the 107th PGA Championship. Rahm wiped out a five-shot overnight deficit to claim a share of the lead with seven holes remaining at Quail Hollow, only to collapse down the closing stretch and finish in a tie for eighth. Scheffler responded to being caught with three birdies in the next six holes to ultimately cruise to a five-shot victory and third major title following his Masters victories in 2022 and 2024. 'This is a special tournament,' Scheffler said. 'Any time you can win a major championship is pretty cool and I'm proud of how I did this week just staying in it mentally and hitting the shots when I needed to. 'This back nine will be one that I remember for a long time. It was a grind out there. I think at one point on the front, I maybe had a four or five-shot lead, and making the turn I think I was tied for the lead. 'So to step up when I needed to the most, I'll remember that for a while. 'I always try to lean as much as I can on my mind. I think that's probably my greatest strength. 'Today and this week I really just feel like I did just such a good job of staying patient when I wasn't swinging it my best but I hit the shots when I needed to. 'I hit the important shots well this week, and that's why I'm walking away with the trophy.' Masters champion Rory McIlroy had to use a substitute driver at Quail Hollow after his club was found to be non-conforming in pre-tournament testing, and Scheffler revealed that he had also fallen foul of the regulations. 'My driver did fail me this week,' he added. 'We had a feeling that it was going to be coming because I've used that driver for over a year. I was kind of fortunate for it to last that long, I felt like.' Around a third of the 156-man field had their equipment tested at random and Scheffler added: 'I would argue that if we're going to test the drivers, we need to be even more robust in the way we test them. 'That was a conversation I had with one of the rules officials; if it's something we're going to take seriously, I feel like we're almost going halfway with it right now. 'It's a newer rule that we haven't quite gotten right yet. I think we have some stuff to figure out. I think, if we're going to do it, we might as well do it right, get more robust and get even more strict. 'You can test guys every week, if you want. I mean, there's no reason why we shouldn't.' PA
