Rory Mcilroy has Done almost for everything he dreamed of doing. He has won everywhere, filled his bank account with more money than he could spend throughout his life and become one of the biggest players ever to play the game in the process.
Now 36, with a lot of gray hair and a understanding of his professional mortality, Mcilroy is honest as he watches the latest chapters of his career. He has said this for quite a while now, that he – Rory Mcilroy, Grand Slam Champion career The active active face of the sport – will give preference to what you want and let the rest sail. Such was the case this year when he overlooked three of the PGA Tour signature events and A Play off event of FedEx Cup. This is the trade for playing a more “global” schedule This will see Mcilroy play in India and Australia later this year while the rest of the stability stability of the stars rest in their season.
These movements, he said, came in accordance with the late career whims of tennis legend Roger Federer, through which Mcilroy wants to focus not on money or trying to vacuum as many trophies as possible, but in the experiences that fill his soul.
“I want to go and play in different places in the world and try things I haven’t experienced before,” Mcilroy said Tuesday at the Wentworth Golf Club ahead of the BMW PGA championship. “Twenty years in a career, or 18 years, to be able to do things for the first time. So go to India and play for the first time or whatever it might be, that excite me. I don’t want to name a tour, but you are going back to the same place, the same thing 15, 20 years, can take a little monotonous and slightly clumsy.
“I had a conversation with Roger Federer, I don’t know, a few years ago, at the end of his career, and he was saying that he wanted to go and play many of the places he could never play in his career. So some of the 250 younger events just because not many had never seen him play tennis.”
Mcilroy’s Earn last week at Amgen Irish Open It was a reminder of what he told us. That for Rory Mcilroy, at this point in his illustrative career, all that matters is what he speaks: Majes, National Opens, Ryder Cup, iconic countries and historical shifts. Everything else is the water of a great winner five times of a key winner.
And so you may have heard Mcilroy say recently that while some elite athletes have a problem leaving them go – they will play and play and play until reality forces them to stop – he won’t have that issue. He is 18 years in a career he still cannot believe he has. When it comes time to hang it, it will do it, getting up here and there in large championships. Until then, he will play the rest of his career according to his conditions.
“I don’t want to be heavy here at the age of 50,” Mcilroy said, repeating the comments he made in the player championship. “I will submit and play diplomas and have a nice time, but you know, whenever I’m done, I’m done, when this is. This is certainly not now, but I am certainly closer to that point now than I was in 2007 when I came back.
“Again, at this point, I want to play Golf when I want to play golf. I want to play in places I want to go, and I want to play Major and Ryder Cup. That’s it. I won’t go with minimal or anything else. How I will definitely do to make sure to keep my membership and I want to play.
It is not aspiring to reach a point in life where you can follow a trail carved only by joy and fulfillment. But Rory Mcilroy has won the right to write the latest chapters of his career in the way he wants, in the courses he wants and playing for trophies he cares for.
And win some while he is in it.
