Criticizing the surprise commemoration of Rory Mcilroy’s memorial loses a great view

Jack Nicklaus revealed that Rory Mcilroy would not play in this year’s memorial tour around the same time that everyone else received words that Master I wouldn’t make the trip to Dublin, Ohio.

There was no conversation with the channel back between Mcilroy and Nicklaus for World Decision no. 2 to sit for the first time since 2017.

This meant that the decision came as a shocked friend for Nicklaus, given the status of the event, Mcilroy’s story at the Muirfield Village and the adhesive of the signing event that comes with it now.

But while caught by guard by Mcilroy’s absence, Nicklaus did not feel the need to criticize Mcilroy on Tuesday during his pre-Turneut press conference.

“It surprised me,” Nicklaus said. “But the boys have schedules and have taken things they do. I haven’t talked to him to tell me why or why not. Just his call.

“I don’t keep anything against Rory for this. He did what he likes to play. I know he likes to play so much in a row. He likes to play a week before an open in the US. And so he is doing. I really don’t have a comment to him. I am very difficult. I am a great Rory fan.

It would be easy to kidnap Mcilroy, who was one of the architects of the signature event model for his third bypass of the season. While there is no penalty now for the loss of signature events as it had in 2023, Mcilroy will now have lost the sending of the season, the RBC heritage and the memorial. The idea was to get the best of the best game against each other as much as possible, and Mcilroy’s absence hits the events raised.

Mcilroy said last year at the Tour championship that he planned to play fewer PGA Tour events. Told the 36-year-old Telegraph That the plan was to throw the RBC Heritage, Cogizant Classic, Valero Texas Open and a play off FedEx Cup (likely FedEx St. Jude). Mcilroy began the connoisseur and Valero, but he added Houston Open before his historical masters won. He is expected to increase the travelers championship, a signature event he spent last year, in his schedule for the week after US Open at Oakmont.

The look with Mcilroy’s biggest photographs, reveals a star whose decisions, in general, have benefited at PGA Tour while respecting his preceded focus.

He passed by Sentry and RBC Heritage. But he also played at Houston Open and Zurich Classic of New Orleans, giving each event an increase in the power of stars they have not always had. The same will be the case when Mcilroy removes it in the RBC Canadian Open of next week, which has become a staple of its schedule. The same is true for Scottie Scheffler, who bypassed the Truist Championship (a signature event), but played CJ CJ Cup Byron Nelson and Charles Schwab Challenge, giving them non -signature events an incentive in stature.

The tournament would obviously want Mcilroy to play the memorial, but it is a tour that will have a lot of juice with its links to Nicklaus and a field studied with stars. You can’t say the same about Houston, Zurich or Canadian Open, all will benefit significantly by having the Grand Slam career winner as the title.

Then, there is the global view of Mcilroy’s schedule.

He still plays in the DP World Tournament as much as possible. He played hero Dubai Desert Classic in January, which is why he bypassed Sentry. He is expected to play Irish Open, BMW PGA Championship, Dunhill Links and DP World Tour Championship. He is also likely to play in Scottish Open, a PGA Tour co-conciliated event.

As my colleague Sean Zak noted last week, Mcilroy is walking on walks as well With his desire for Pro Golf to be a more global game. He made a two-year commitment to play in Australian Open in December and recently engaged to play at the DP World Cup in India.

Mcilroy is doing its part to bring in pro golf to countries outside the United States and has better tours that usually have no star power.

Perhaps the model of the signature event should be reviewed. Maybe there should be fewer of them. Maybe they have to end before the big sampling season (excuse me, jack).

Be that as it may, the memorial will simply be good standing on its own without Mcilroy this week, and Open Canadian will be much better for its presence. These large photographs are likely that PGA Tour is more than happy to do.