In a meeting with PGA Tour chief tournaments and competitions officer Andy Pazder captured in the Netflix documentary "Full Swing," McIlroy said if he was willing to do it, they should too. There's other parts of my life that are important as well," he said.ĭespite the $3 million fine, which is a drop in the bucket for a guy with McIlroy's earning potential, his decision seems sensible in the bigger picture except for the fact that McIlroy signed off on the designated events being mandatory and when there initially was player pushback after it was announced in August at the Tour Championship, McIlroy took a strong stance. "I feel like it's totally consumed my life for the last 12 months. To hear McIlroy tell it, he was desperate for a mental escape from the game. He spent one of those weeks in Manhattan celebrating his anniversary there with wife Erica.
He said he didn't touch a club for two weeks. McIlroy used his extended three-week break to reset, reassess and put his disappointment at Augusta in the rear-view mirror. "I would've been doing myself a disservice and I would've been doing the people around me a disservice if I had gone to play." It was more important for me to be home," he said of electing to bypass Harbour Town. When McIlroy passed on the first designated event of the season in Hawaii, he didn't envision a scenario where he'd miss another. I understood the consequences of that decision before I did it.
"I had my reasons to not play Hilton Head and I've expressed those to Jay. It was worth that for me to get some other things in place," McIlroy said Tuesday. "I knew the consequences that could come with missing one of those. STAY UP-TO-DATE: Subscribe to our Sports newsletter now! The second miss receives a steep fine − Commissioner Jay Monahan Wednesday confirmed that McIlroy will lose $3 million of his Player Impact Program bonus from 2022. Players are allowed one absence, which he took at the season-opening Sentry Tournament of Champions. McIlroy remained coy about why he skipped the RBC Heritage, his second missed designated event. I was almost too − not overconfident − but maybe got ahead of myself." I feel like at Augusta I didn't do a good job of that because of how well I was playing. You need to be thinking about staying in the present. That's getting ahead of myself and feeling really good about my game but having those thoughts of, jeez, I'm going to have the best week I've ever had at Augusta isn't the right mindset going into it. I should only be thinking about that first tee shot on Thursday. "I shouldn't be thinking about if I'm going to be having a good week or a bad week. "I honestly thought I was going to have the best Masters I ever had," McIlroy said on Tuesday evening at a private event at Puttery, the indoor modern spin on mini-golf of which he's an investor.Īnd yet as golf fans know all too well, the quest for the elusive Green Jacket goes on as McIlroy missed the 36-hole cut. − Rory McIlroy shot 5 under on the second nine at Augusta National on the eve of the Masters and said he never felt more ready to win the Masters and complete the career Grand Slam.
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