The last time we saw Rory Mcilroy, he spoke about the malice that had come After winning the 2025 masters to complete the Grand Slam career. Victory, such a monumental achievement That was a whole life in doingIt had apparently left Mcilroy to face an existential question that often comes after a mountain contained: what now?
“I don’t know if you’re following anything,” Mcilroy said in 2025 US Open. “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.
“Look, you dream of the last blow that enters the masters, but you don’t think about what comes next,” Mcilroy said 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 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.”
Human beings are not connected to find the fulfillment in controlling a box. The story is full of titans of sports, industry, science, etc., who have dedicated their lives to a pursuit, captured the car they followed, and then filled with a void when the immediate splendor fades and they do not continue to swim over the world they seem to be softened.
Lydia found something similar After she won the gold medal last summer to score her ticket in the LPGA Fame Hall. Search always continues. You just have to find what is next.
“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 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, masters is the one missing. “And as much as I’m sure he is so happy and relieved, he’s just as good the day before, as 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.
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Mcilroy’s The traveler championship was without tensionAnd then he faded from his eyes. He left for London with his wife and daughter at their new home in Wentworth. He took time for himself. To be wasted, to re -evaluate, they are likely to be completely immersed in what he would achieve and think about where his future northern star will get.
He reached this week at 2025 Scottish Genesis Open With a new haircut – the one who failed to hide his gray hair – and the benefit of time and space to give him some perspective on “what else” conversion.
“I think I feel a little clearer,” Mcilroy said before the tour at the Renaissance club began. “ITH’S AMAZING WHAT TEN DYS OR TWO WEEKS OF JUST A LITTLE BIT OF DETAILS CAN FOR YOU, AND SITTING THAING WITH YOUR ONTEMBLY. year, I feel like I’m a better player now than i have been.
Mcilroy’s place in golf pantheon is already insured. But as a student of history, he understands the meaning he comes with victory in the golf cathedrals. That is why his loss of the 2022 open championship in St.Andrews left him to bury his wife’s shoulder. This year’s AT&T victory at Pebble Beach Pro-AM gave him a victory in the famous coastal course, but now he has US Open in 2027 on his radar.
For Mcilroy, now the goal is not a win or a moment, but some other crowning achievements that will put his name along with the other greats who have won in places that have entered the history of golf.
With that renewable focus, Mcilroy immediately put himself in quarrel at the Renaissance club.
He opened with rounds 68, 65 and 66 Share the superiority with 54 holes with Chris Gotterup. With the open championship in northern Ireland in Royal Portrush approaching next week, Mcilroy’s ball flight, Iron Play and setting were called along the North Sea coast. He looked very much like the player who dominated the first part of the season before the Hangover Augusta began.
“Canchi my first realistic chance to win after the masters, and I’ve had a great season,” Mcilroy said Saturday in Scotland. “I won in Pebble. I won the players. I said this, when you do something you dreamed of your whole life to do, it was a great moment in my life, my career. I think I just need that little time. And go back here for the last two weeks, and feel like I could really digest it all, the rest of the year. ”
But Mcilroy’s superpower, his driver, was out this week. He lost 0.094 shots from Tee this week, and when his blow went on the cold Sunday, with the help of some bumpy greens, he could not keep the rhythm with gotterup, who won by two to look for the biggest victory of his new career.
While Mcilroy and Gotterup signs their score cards, the five -time big sample, which has spent the last few weeks trying to process the steps after a life change moment, Patted Gotterup, who had just secured a monumental victory, on the back to signal a well -done work.
As the title avoided it, Rory Mcilroy found what he needed in “Golf Country”. His game, his mindset and the path forward.
“It’s been a great week,” Mcilroy said after finishing it in T2. “I’m really happy with the place where my game is; the way I played over the weekend; the shooting I hit, how I checked my ball flight. It’s been a great week. Missing the trophy, that’s about it.
“No disappointment, really. I’m really happy with the place where everything is,” Mcilroy continued later. “I look forward to going to the portrait tonight and going out in the golf course early tomorrow and just drawing my attention to this. But I feel like I have come out of this week, really, I wanted.”
And with that, Rory Mcilroy, the winner of Grand Slam, finally turned his attention to the next mountain to climb, with what he finally ended in April still visible in his back mirror.
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