2026-08-17 08:28:57
Rory McIlroy has confessed that he “felt lost” during the FedEx St Jude Championship,
The Northern Irish golfer finished 66th out of 68 golfers at TPC Southwind – a whopping 25 shots behind winner Scottie Scheffler – and admitted his game is “so far away from where I need it to be” ahead of the upcoming BMW Championship.
McIlroy said: “Obviously didn’t come in here with a ton of reps, (it) almost felt like the more the week went on the more I felt lost with my golf swing a little bit.
“The swing wasn’t in sync and obviously I didn’t do a ton of practice coming in here.
“I’m so far away from where I need to be to even feel like I have a chance. I’ve just got to keep working and hope it turns around a little bit.”
The world number two said: “I guess nice to shake the rust off a little bit but I’m going to have to work pretty hard between now and next Thursday to feel like I have any sort of golf game to compete next week.
“To me it’s more about obviously the execution of what I’m doing right now, and the execution wasn’t there this week.
“I’m going to have to sort of put the head down and grind from now until Thursday to try to feel like I have any sort of chance next week.”
McIlroy explained earlier this year that he will “pick and choose” events to play on the PGA Tour in order to bring “balance” to his life.
The six-time major champion said: “I’ve been doing this a long time. I’ve been on tour more than half of my life at this point.
“So I’ll pick and choose my spots like I have been doing sort of the last 18 months to two years.
“Does it mean it makes it harder for myself to win the FedExCup or whatever the season-long title race is going to be called? Absolutely. But I’m OK with that because it brings balance to my life and lets me enjoy things outside of the game.”
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