On hearing this was his 15th appearance at the PGA Championship, Rory McIlroy did one of those instinctive reactions. A shake of the head, his lips rapidly – if briefly – twitching in that motion of allowing air to escape. Getting older, for sure; and, after the disappointment of a missed cut at the Masters, perhaps a little wiser too as he heads into another major.
A month on from the last, the career record remains the same. Four wins, and none since lifting the Wanamaker Trophy back in 2014.
What’s different here at Oak Hill Country Club in upstate New York is a discernible difference in expectations, of not getting so far ahead of himself. Visualisation is all well and good but there is the matter of actually staying in the moment, of working step by step through 72 hol …
- May 17, 2023
