Rory Mcilroy driver, media comments offer windows in his mind

Rory Mcilroy’s great irony bypassing the media after each of his four rounds in the PGA championship was that, as a result of his silence, we did not know why He was not talking.

Was it because of his under standard game? Due to news about a failed driver test? Because someone had discovered the said test? Because he was dissatisfied with the media? Just because he beat?

On Wednesday, Mcilroy was revised forward RBC Canadian Open and offered a particularly summarized explanation that made all speculation seem to seem some kind of folly.

“It was simply – a few days you don’t feel like talking,” Mcilroy said.

Quite right.

But it was hardly Mcilroy’s only opinion on this issue; His full comments offered a window in his opinion that the PGA week and the role of the media in general.

He began with a day-to-day explanation by Quail Hollow.

“Yes. Look, PGA was a strange week,” he said. “I didn’t play well on the first day, so I wanted to go to practice, so it was fine.

“The second day we finished late; I wanted to go back and see Poppy before going to bed, the driver’s news broke up. I really didn’t want to talk about it.

“On Saturday I had to go out at 8:20 am.

“Then on Sunday, I just wanted to board the plane and go back to Florida.”

In other words, some of them were circumstantial. Changing Tee time, range sessions, sleep. But Mcilroy admitted that there were even more stories, especially around his driver, who is reported to be one of the eight to fail, but the only one who became public:

“Look, and also the driver’s things – I was a little bored because I knew the scottie driver had failed on Monday but my The name was the one that was discovered. Had had to stay confidential. Two media members were the ones who discovered it. “

It was not clear here if he was upset with those who discovered his failed score BY the media or with the members of the media who later reported it; However, it is understandable that he would worry about being singled out. After all, if Scheffler’s name came out alongside him, the narrative would have been completely different.

“Again, I didn’t want to get up there and say something I regretted, or because there are a lot of people I – I’m trying to protect scottie. I don’t want to mention his name. I’m trying to protect Tayormade. I’m trying to protect USA, PGA of America, myself.

Questions about driver testing protocols – who, when, where – have been shaken since the PGA, and because it is a topic that people do not know much about, get the inflammatory can supplement the invalid information. I take Mcilroy not to want to address a theme of the hot button in the middle of a large championship; Just just the alternative of NO Talking about it meant that it was difficult to clean everything.

“With Scottie things, this is not my information to share. I knew this had happened, but it is not for me to share it, and I felt the process is supposed to be confidential, and it was not for any reason. That’s why I was very upset by this.”

In summary: Mcilroy was upset in a combination of his game, his schedule, the media and those responsible for driver testing.

As to the question with the greatest view of the athletes and their responsibility to get questions after the round? He did not repeat the Morikawa’s Collin at all cleave From “I don’t owe anyone” but he echoed a similar point.

“From the point of view of responsibility, look, I understand, but if we all want, we could all overlook guys and we could just go on and we could go to social media and we could talk about our round and do it,” Mcilroy said, keeping his phone.

Is an interesting concept, the boys who perform their self Post -round interviews and a reminder of how the dynamics has been moved since the arrival of social media; Pros with big -time platforms do not necessarily need the media to reach an audience. From a player’s perspective, many interviews are boring or, worse, intruders. The subtext of mcilroy – We don’t need you – There are some truths about him, even if it is not true.

Mcilroy ended up in a reconciliation note, stressing that he spends a lot of time speaking in the media and hoping to be a “two -way road”. This seemed to be an acquaintance that players and media need each other. But as long as the tournaments do not mandate the good to the questions, he said, he will follow his instincts.

“I’ve beaten this drum for a long time. If they want to make it mandatory, it’s good, but in our rules it says it is not, and by the day this is probably written in the regulation, you will have boys to pass from time to time, and that’s good within our rights,” he concluded.

“Hopefully he can tell me in the right direction for nine back tomorrow and then we will go from there,” he said.

He said how much he likes Canadian open, not only because of his love for the National, but because it is served as the right preparation of the US Open.

“Before I played this event, 2016, 2017, 2018, I lost three in a row in the US Open, and since Canadian Open play a week before I had six 10, so there is something for this,” he said.

He accepted in some letters after the master.

“I’ve 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 once,” he said. “You have this event in your life for which you worked for and that happens, sometimes it’s hard to find motivation to get back to horse and go back.”

And he attributed his resistance to his father’s opinion course, Gerry.

“If someone knows my father, he is the most positive person in the world. He could find a silver lining in a funeral maybe,” Mcilroy said.

As Mcilroy left, there was at least one big question still uninvited. What do you think about how Pro Golf deals with driver testing, anyway?! But we will get there are a point. Right now we will get what we can get, knowing that we will hear much more from Mcilroy in days, weeks, months – even if no interview session is guaranteed.

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