At a time when golf has become largely political as the PGA Tour fights its ongoing battle with LIV Golf, off-course duties have become more demanding of some of the golf’s best players. Rory McIlroy, who missed the cut at The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass on Saturday, admitted that taking on some demanding roles as one of the PGA Tour’s staunchest supporters has taken a bit away from his game.
“It’s just the time management,” McIlroy said via ESPN. “The golf [at tournaments], that’s fine, but it’s just more the time at home to make sure you’re getting prepared, to make sure that you’re doing everything you can to be ready once you show up to these weeks. That’s where I’ve maybe sacrificed a little bit of time with some of this other stuff.
“As I said, I’m ready to get back to being purely a golfer.”
According to ESPN, McIlroy attended a players’ advisory committee meeting prior to last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational. The meeting lasted nearly seven hours.
Saturday marked McIlory’s sixth career missed cut at the Players Championship.
He was quite brutally honest about his performance.
“Just very blah,” McIlroy said of his performance. “I guess the course, you just have to be really on to play well here. If you’re a little off, it definitely magnifies where you are off. It’s a bit of an enigma. Some years I come here, it feels easier than others. It’s just a tricky golf course, and [if] you don’t hit fairways, you’ve got your work cut out for you.”
[ESPN]
