Driver’s uncertainty Rory Mcilroy by waving to another major

Oakmont, without. – Rory Mcilroy has understood some things this year: How to Earn to Augusta National (Avoid hitting rounds); How to liberate more time for himself (accept less demand for media); How to have more fun (travel the world with his daughter, Poppy and play tennis with his cadet, Harry Diamond).

One thing that Mcilroy has not solved, though: which driver to hold in his bag.

Indeed, just a week after making his fourth driver exchange of the year, Rory Mcilroy has made Switch No. 5 forward We opened this weekwith a return to his tayormade qi10 once with faith. Let’s regain how we got here:

Mcilroy began the season with the Qi10 head that he would use for more than a year. In his first start of the year, in the hero Dubai Desert Classic, he was tied up for the fourth, and then, a few weeks later, won his first PGA Tour’s beginning in AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AM. After a T17 at Genesis at Torrey Pines – still with Qi10 in his bag – Mcilroy set back to the east for Arnold Palmer Invitational in Bay Hill. His first driver’s circuit breaker came to the advantage of that event when Mcilroy put on the new game Driver Taylormade Qi35 (9-scales), 3-druit (15-scales) and 5-dude (18-step).

After opened 70-70-73 and does not love his balls of tee, Mcilroy made a dramatic movement: He ordered a Uber driver to get his QI10 from the Mcilroy House club to Jupiter, Fla., And transfer them two-plus hours north to Orlando so that Mcilroy could restore his old players back into his bag for the fourth round. (In that last round, Mcilroy struck only five fairways and its SG numbers actually refused.)

“Type of return to what I am pleased,” he said in the wake of that beginning. “I tried new woods for the first three days, I didn’t work as I wanted it. So, yes, I went back to my old things today. I directed won strokes: off tee on both Pebble and Torrey, so it was a really good idea to change (laughter). And then, like yesterday, I lost my shocks from tee, which is the first time I did it in a long time. “

His main receipt: he had not given himself enough to gather in QI35 and would keep the qi10 at least through masters.

When Mcilroy won the player championship A week later, his strategy seemed like a genius blow. Two weeks after that he tied up for 5 at Texas Open and then two weeks after that came his historic victory in masters. Mcilroy – and his bag – in the middle of a magical run.

After two strongest conclusions – T12 in Zurich Classic (with Shane Lowry), T7 in the Truist – Mcilroy and his Qi10 driver reached Quail Hollow for the second big year, PGA Championship. Then came an unexpected hiccup: Tuesday of that week, Mcilroy’s driver failed a compliance test. That was nothing unusual – drivers usually fail to test CT – but because Mcilroy refused to address Snafu (and all the interview requirements in Quail Hollow, for that issue), the story caught fire. He Mcilroy struck only four straight roads on his way in his first round 74 did not help calm the deception. He survived the cut, but finished the week at three, in 47th place.

At its next start – on the RBC Canadian Open last week – Mcilroy had QI35 again in its starting lineup, though with a twist. The head was glued to a 44-5/8-inch shaft, which is a shorter inch than the typical length of the Mcilroy axis.

After an opening one over 71 at TPC Toronto, Mcllroy said: “I hit some discs I liked and I liked to see, so it was encouraging … It’s hard with the driver, as with what I had played with before, when I missed it, I was a little left. Then, my miss is a little right.

In the second round, Mcilroy lost -2,810 shots from Tee against the field, shot 78 and lost cut with 12.

And this week in Oakmont? We will give you an assumption.

Yes, Qi10 has returned, even if Mcilroy was convinced to disclose that information.

Asked on Tuesday if he would be placed on a big stick for this week, Mcilroy offered only one “yes”.

“What is it?” The reporter followed.

Mcilroy: “a Taylormade”.

Reporter: “Model what model?”

Mcilroy: “I mean, go out and look at me hit balls, and you will see.”

Ok, then!

In justice, Mcilroy was wider when asked if his wars for driving were more connected to his swing or his equipment.

“A little by both,” he said. “Hit many drivers, every type of driver has its own character and you are trying to manage losses. As the last few weeks go, I think I learned a lot on Thursday and Friday last week and I did a good practice at home and feel like I’m in a better place with everything going this week.”

What did he learn special?

“I learned that I was not using the right driver,” he said with a smile.

Mcilroy knows that lost roads will not fly in this stroke of a golf course. On a last trip to Oakmont scout, Mcilroy said he fired 81 with birds in the last two holes, though in what he described as “impossible” conditions. “I didn’t feel like I was playing so bad,” he added.

This week, the approximate course will provide some relapse.

“Hit the ball in approximately and you will not have any check of your ball going to green, especially these greens that have left you,” Mcilroy said. “You need to be able to rotate the ball by going to these greens if you want it to end up anywhere near the place you want.”

This begins with hitting the right roads. AND THAT begins with faith than you WILL Hit the right roads. Mcilroy knows that. Asked how much he returned to the PGA Championship with needing to play with a replacement driver, Mcilroy was quick to quote world No.1 Scottie Scheffler, who also had to replace his driver that week after a failed conformity test.

“It wasn’t a big job for Scottie,” Mcilroy said, “so it should not have been a big deal for me.”