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Rory Mcilroy said he has occasionally fought to find motivation since the victory of his masters. Scottie Scheffler explained the phenomenon.
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Oakmont, without. – At the RBC Canadian Open last week, Rory Mcilroy, your 2025 masters sample, still fresh finishing the Grand Slam career, was asked what you are following now.
He could have said by winning another major to spend one of his heroes, Seve Ballesteros and reach six. Or winning two others to spend the big ones like Nick Faldo, Phil Mickelson and Lee Trevino. He could have said the goal was to win THREE More and dance Palmer, Snead and Jones. Heck, he could have shot for heaven and said he was coming to Tiger and Jack.
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“I don’t know if you’re following anything,” Mcilroy said. “I would probably say that the last few weeks I had a few weeks rest, and go and grind in the range for three or four hours every day is probably a little tougher than you used to.
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There have been a strange month for Mcilroy since it exited those national demons of Augusta. After two beginnings of so-so he was tied up for the 47th in the PGA but made more titles for a ratio of a failed driver test and his refusal to talk to the media about him. He lost the cut on the Canadian Open RBC and has not been able to get much of anything in this week’s US Open, barely making the cut to squeeze on the weekends.
He spoke at his press conference in front of the tournament, but refused to talk to the media after his rounds on Thursday and Friday.
He was asked on Saturday after he shot 74, why he crossed the media after his six rounds.
“More disappointment with you guys,” he said, referring to the media.
He explained that the report that his driver failed in PGA disappointed him – Scottie Scheffler’s driver also failed, but only Mcilroy’s name was discovered in the media – and he also remembered that he did not speak to reporters after his first round of masters; It just happens that the media is going through a little more often recently.
“I feel like I have gained the right to do whatever I want to do,” he said.
His latest question Thursday was what he was looking for Sunday. He stopped for a few seconds before saying, “hopefully a round under four and a half hours and get out of here.”
While Mcilroy is ready to place this week after him and was short in his context at his short press conference on Saturday, was Scheffler, the man who won more degrees than another over the past few years, which added a lot.
“Winning a big championship in general simply gets a lot of you,” he said on Saturday, after he shot 70, when asked about Mcilroy. “I think that physically and mentally is one thing enough taxing to do. Really really hard to describe to someone who has not really lived through him.”
Although he then tried. Scheffler, who won the PGA Championship for his third major title last month, said he woke up the next day and “felt like I was hit by a bus”.
“I felt terrible, and it’s just a part of the adrenaline, part of the competition for four days on a really difficult golf course, keeping your head in it for 72 holes, which is a long time, and is simply mentally grueling,” he said. “Physically it’s a quarrel too. So if I felt so after PGA, I can only imagine how Rory felt after winning Grand Slam careers, and it’s not easy to appear every week here and play well. This is a very difficult sport. We play very difficult golf courses like this.”
Scheffler is four for the week, connected for 11 and eight out of the direction held by Sam Burns. Scheffler has a chance on Sunday, but it is unlikely. Mcilroy is over 10. He, to say clearly, is out of this race.
After his victory of the masters, Mcilroy had three wins in his first six beginnings of the year. He will enter the travelers championship next week without a win in his last four events of the game.
“We’re all here just trying to do our best,” Scheffler said. “It’s a difficult game, and sometimes it can seem easy and sometimes it can feel really difficult, but at the end of the day, we are just appearing to try our best and then go home.”
Tuesday, during Mcilroy pre-Turneut press conferenceHe said he is making this post-Grand Slam Life tour one at a time.
“Look, you dream of the last blow that enters the masters, but you don’t think about what comes next,” he said. “I think I have always been a player who struggles to play after a big event after winning any tournament. I always try to motivate the next week because you have just achieved something and you want to enjoy it and I want to enjoy a little time you have achieved a goal. I think following a certain goal for the best part of a decade and a little, I think I have allowed a little time.”
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