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Lydia KO understands the existential state of Rory Mcilroy
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Frisco, Texas – Rory Mcilroy’s Historical masters earn He had to bring everything he wanted. He had to liberate him and make the elastic star who had spent years, taking his heart shattered again.
Instead, when Mcilroy crashed to the ground in Augusta National and released 14 years (perhaps a life) of emotions written in the air, it was not a fulfillment he found. Pouring the weight of time and waiting, instead, they brought another question.
“Look, you dream of the latest blow to the masters, but you don’t think about what comes next,” Mcilroy said before last year 2025 US Open in Oakmont. “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 the fact that you have achieved a goal. I think following a certain goal for the best part of a decade and half, I think I think of a little.
“I think you’re trying to have a little amnesia and forget what happened six weeks ago,” Mcilroy said that day. “Then just trying to find the motivation to get back there and work so hard as I worked. I worked extremely hard in my game from last year to April to April this year. It was good to see my work fruits come in hardening and have everything. But at the same time, you have to enjoy it.
The thing that Mcilroy found with his secured dreams is an existential question that people fight for. Human beings, in general, are not thought to be fulfilled by one thing. Self-actualization does not come with a special achievement. On the contrary, we are connected to being constant researchers, always wishing behind the other thing. How do you find fulfillment if there can always be more, always something else to follow?
When David Duval won the 2001 Open Championship and asked himself about the airplane trip to the house if it was “it”. Kevin Durant did not find what he thought when he won his first NBA championship with Golden State Warriors. He won another, but continued to look for what he thought he would find by holding the Larry O’Brien trophy.
It is, in a sense, an endless search.
Last summer, Lydia Ko stood under her face in the summer Olympics of 2024. With a gold medal around her neck, KO, who had been one of the excellent golf stars for more than a decade, had become a celebrity hall in Paris. A few weeks later, her widow won when she won Open Women Open in St. Andrews. like SEAN OUR HEARTED In a landing with KO, the 28-year-old had summarized another mountain.
Now a celebrity hall after summer of a life, KO found what Mcilroy is now transversing.
“I think I thought my life or maybe the way I thought about myself would change when I got into the hall of fame and I did a lot of the things I wanted to do before it really happened, and I’m sure Rory is thinking the same in similar parts where everyone was, Oh, the masters is the one missing.” before he won.
“I think this is what I have achieved in peace. I think sometimes when it’s right there in front of you and you see all these statistics, you feel like you have to do more. I think some of the things we have already taken, we take them as well.
For those like KO and Mcilroy, who are glued to the top of their craft, there are always “more”. This is what makes those who are. Theelli is to do what did KO – and what Mcilroy is trying to do – and balance pride in what you have done while not feeling empty because there is a desire for more.
“I am very sure he wanted to win the US Open when he withdrew it,” Ko said. “Thought the same thing. We’re greedy in that sense, as nothing will fully meet us until we are over. I think that’s – I don’t think it’s a bad way to set it up. I think that’s why we play. That’s why he is at his level because of his competition.”
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Mcilroy ended with a Sunday 3rd 67 in Oakmont and sounded optimistic about the way out of his illness and towards a new mountain in the summit when he arrives at the Royal Open Championship next month.
“If I can’t motivate get up for an open home championship, then I don’t know what can motivate me,” Mcilroy said. “Yes, as I said, I just have to recover in the right frame of mind. I probably haven’t been there in the last few weeks.
“I went up to my Everest in April, and I think after doing something like that, you have to make your way down, and you have to look for another mountain to climb. An open in the portrait is of course one of them.”
As for KO, she faces a career research Grand Slam her this week in the KPMG women’s PGA at Fields Ranch East in PGA Frisco. KO has won the open women’s championship, Evian and Anna’s inspiration (now called the Chevron Championship). While there are five degrees, the LPGA classifies each player to win four degrees as a Grand Slam career winner. Karrie Webb is the only player to win the Grand Slam career (five different diplomas).
Ko said the Grand Slam career is five in her book. While she needs to win both women in the US, as well as the PGA of KPMG women to achieve that goal, this tour ascends to her mind as one to win.
“I feel as if the KPMG women’s PGA championship is the one I feel like I could win/I have to win with the type of golf courses we play,” KO said. “I saw Meg Mallon and Beth Daniel yesterday and said, I hope I can join you at the champions dinner one day and have a dinner menu curated by me.
“It would be very wonderful,” KO said later to anticipate himself by raising the trophy this week in Frisco. “I was talking to my boiler about it, and I was like, I shouldn’t have won British Open. This is where I probably didn’t have the best record going to St andrews last year, especially coming out of the week to the Olympics a few weeks ago. So if I made it impossible here.”
Theeles can stand in what she found after Summi Mountain who put it in the Hall of Fame: Peace in Pursuit.
“I feel like I am enjoying playing much more these days than before, and that simply puts me in a better thought where I am not irritated and stressed so much,” Ko said. “When things are on the line, things can change. There was a lot of emotions in the SH.BA Open last year, but I think this just because it means a lot to all of us players, you never know until that pressure and that moment comes.
“I think that’s why we play for those kind of main moments.”
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Josh Schrock is a writer and reporter for Golf.com. Before entering Golf, Josh was the interior of Chicago Bears for the NBC Sports Chicago. He previously covered 49ers and Warriors for NBC Sports Bay Area. A native Oregonian and Uo alum, seduces and spends his free time walking with his wife and dog, thinking about how the ducks will break his heart again, and trying to become half a professor into pieces. A true romantic for golf, Josh will never stop trying to break 90 and will never lose the confidence that Rory Mcilroy’s main drought will end (updated: he did it). Josh Schrock can be reached in Josho.schrock@golf.com.

