Rory Mcilroy spoke a great ‘global’ game. Now he is supporting it

There is a rarely spoken implication among the best players in PGA Tour. Many of them I want Playing in America … and actually don’t want to travel away to raise their craft. But don’t be so quick to blame them. America is the largest television market, where there is a tournament of the tournament and most of the big money sponsors greet.

But is Golf in America near his roof? Both in the ability of vision, sponsor’s ability, or just general popularity?

Rory Mcilroy definitely thinks so. Or at least He did in January 2024 When he spoke extensively about trying to make the game pro -global. To enter the markets – means fans, sponsors AND Media – that are undeserved, but also ready to grow in the Golf world.

Mcilroy used part of his visit to Dubai 16 months ago to explain that he thinks a global tour – not a bifurcated, or even tricked among America, Europe and wherever Liv Golf – Spend a lot of time in AmericaBut it would also travel to Australia, Singapore, East Asia, the Middle East, South Africa, etc.

“If everyone talks about growing the game,” Mcilroy said then, “especially if these investors will come to our game and they want a return to their capital, I think everyone should start thinking more globally about him.”

This was talking about the conversation, waiting for that investment to become official. Now more than a year later, he is walking on a walk.

In the last 10 days, Mcilroy has added numerous autumn events to his schedule, where he has previously, if ever, played before. Last week, it was a two-year commitment to play Australian Open, starting this December at Royal and continuing until next December at Kingston Heath. These are two of the biggest golf courses on the planet – the last AND Cup hosts of future presidents – and also one of the main golf events in the annual calendar.

Aussie Open has been played more than 100 times, dating back to 1904, and expects one of the richest stories for the national team. This is part of the Mcilroy campaign – the national opens. He wants them to be prior to modern players as much as their story would suggest. More than ever before, Mcilroy’s next schedule reflects it.

Mcilroy is currently not on the field for next week’s memorial tour (though he has 48 hours to change it), but will play Canadian Open a week after – one of the open national girlfriends in the PGA Tour program. After that it is We open to Oakmont – a big one, yes, but an open national as well. After that, Mcilroy is committed to playing the Connecticut traveler championship before taking two weeks away from another open national: The Scottish.

We will not technically calculate the open championship as an Open National, though it will be absolutely one for it. Royal Portrush is essentially as close as mcilroy will ever get to compete where he grew up (except last year’s Irish Open at Royal County Down). From open, he will have FedEx Cup Play off, but do not necessarily wait for him to play all three. In November, he mentioned The idea of ​​not playing the first of the three events, which is held in Memfis.

Mcilroy’s national open tournament continues in September with Irish Open in K Club – which has been confirmed. From there, it is likely that he will play at the BMW PGA Championship a week later, in Wentworth. Not only because this is the flag event in the DP World Tournament, but also because Mcilroy has been building a house in the Posh neighborhood near Wentworth Club.

Can have a Bethpage Black Scouting/team connection sprayed on its latest August plans or early September, but if not, Mcilroy will reach the Ryder Cup not long later. After which he will surely set the clubs aside for a break. But it won’t last long because just this week Was announced He will play a new event in India, the World DP Championship in New Delhi, who can also be an open national. It will mark the first time a reigning masters champion has played in India. The reception is expected to be magnificent, as was when Bryson Dechambeau, the champion of the US Open reign, visited in January.

As the announcement came this week, the fresh the masters earn, has nothing to do with the green jacket flame in a place that has never been. Mcilroy’s decision to add India has been in place for a long time. In fact, the promotional video released on Wednesday was filmed on January 15 in Dubai at the beginning of the 2025 season.

What does this tell us? That Mcilroy’s 2025 is mainly following the script. He promised last fall that he would go back to his PGA Tour game schedule. He did it a little in the spring, and walking ahead of his next seven months are likely to include seven events in the DP World Tournament, and only a handful in the United States. The only question now is whether the green jacket will come together for travel.