It’s a numbers game when all is said and done and, unfortunately for Rory McIlroy, the math isn’t adding up like it used to.
McIlroy captured his fourth career Major when he lifted the giant Wannamaker Trophy in the gathering gloom of Valhalla on an August evening in 2014. At the time, it seemed a matter of course that he would be collecting further Major trophies, his destiny. It was his fourth Major win in just 24 championship appearances.
Destiny, though, is a strange creature. It doesn’t always deliver.
And since that win in Louisville, McIlroy has gone 33 Major championships without another win. He has had no fewer than 19 top-10s in that spell, but the drought has prolonged and the only numbers adding up are those of close calls and near misses.
Ahead of the US Open at LACC, McIlroy addressed the elephant in the room.
“I’ve been trying …