By Doug Ferguson, AP Golf Writer The trouble with winning so much so early is that the losing can feel worse than it really is. The British Open stung Rory McIlroy, even if he said it wasn’t …
By Doug Ferguson AP Golf Writer The stage at St. Andrews was all set for Rory McIlroy. The show belonged to Cameron Smith, and so did that silver claret jug he won in a Sunday stunner at …
By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Cheers from every corner of the Old Course that belonged to Tiger Woods for two days at St. Andrews switched over to Rory McIlroy in …
On Tuesday, Tiger Woods was in the mood to reflect on the journey that will soon bring him back to the birthplace of golf — as unlikely a destination as anyone could have predicted when the …
Sportico’s annual list of the 100 highest-paid athletes in the world included a pair of pro golf megastars whose earning power is apparently impervious to long periods of inactivity. Tiger Woods, who didn’t play a competitive …
Tiger Woods has innumerable admirers on the PGA Tour, players whose fandom fueled their own pursuit of golf’s most hallowed records. And Rory McIlroy certainly fits the bill. Chatting with the media ahead of this week’s …
The last two winners on the PGA Tour — Cameron Smith and Sam Burns — are among six big-name players who won’t be teeing it up tomorrow in Texas for the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match …
The person who least needs to be reminded that Rory McIlroy hasn’t won a major championship in seven years is Rory McIlroy. And as he kicks off his 2022 campaign this week in Abu Dhabi, McIlroy …
Phil Mickelson isn’t pulling any punches when it comes to the USGA’s new Model Local Rule that will limit all clubs (except putters), but especially drivers, to 46 inches beginning on Jan. 1, 2022. Prior to …
The “passion” of the players in the Ryder Cup is something that comes up every year that the biennial matches are played, but considering what we witnessed this week at Whistling Straits, there should at least …
After a disappointing opening round at the abrdn Scottish Open, Rory McIlroy’s second round started even more bizarrely as a fan stole a club from McIlroy’s bag on his first tee of the day. Standing on …
One of the things that people love about Rory McIlroy is that he’s thoughtful and candid during his press conferences, which tends to cause those meetings with the media to run a little longer than some …
One of the most outspoken original detractors to the Premier Golf League — now the Golf Super League — was Rory McIlroy and following the news reports from Tuesday of offer contracts being sent out, McIlroy’s …
Rory McIlroy isn’t known for his fast starts at Augusta National, but with patrons back at the Masters he’s now also known for hitting his father with an errant shot. After a steady start on Thursday …
As we wrote about on Wednesday, things haven’t been going great for Rory McIlroy lately, but they haven’t been that bad. Things got bad on Wednesday at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. Competing against the highest seed …
Rory McIlroy’s “slumps” aren’t the same as many of his peers’ on the PGA Tour. McIlroy hasn’t won since the end of 2019, but he showed a trending form of play leading up to the pandemic …
The Players Championship, for all of its warts and imperfections, does have a way of delivering some pretty relatable moments to amateur golfers as the best players in the world struggle on the Pete Dye-designed TPC …
Tiger Woods’ recovery is progressing well and he’s hoping to head back home to Florida in the coming days to continue his recovery, Rory McIlroy told Jimmy Fallon on a Tonight Show interview this week. Woods …
When someone questions your life’s work, it doesn’t take long to stick up for yourself, so when Rory McIlroy caught wind of what 1973 Open Champion Tom Weiskopf said about him, it was only a matter …
Rory McIlroy’s six-years-and-counting major championship slump is something that has flummoxed golf fans and pundits alike given the talent and game the Northern Irishman has shown outside of the four biggest events on the calendar each …
