Rory McILroy will seek to atone after a weekend less than Ideal at the US Open when he went out Thursday at the Travelers championship in Cromwell, Conn.
Of course, McILroy closed strong with six birdies during the last round on Sunday to finish equally for the 19th place at the US Open.
Although this was sufficient to reserve an automatic place in the European Ryder Cup team for this year’s competition with Black Bethpage in Farmingdale, NY, it did not leave good taste in his mouth.
After all, the golfer ranked n ° 2 in the world had higher expectations when he was trying to take the momentum this year at the players’ championship, in Pebble Beach and Masters.
That said, McILroy’s frustrations were obvious – he broke a tee marker in pieces, after all. The 36 -year -old also refused to speak to the media in the first two days of competition before joking Saturday that “it’s more frustration with you”, while adding later: “I feel like I have won the right to do what I want to do.”
McILroy took a different tone on Wednesday.
“I think the weeks after the major championships of these events sometimes when you are in the running and you try to win them, it can be quite difficult to go play next week,” he said. “After a week as I did in Oakmont last week, where you are not entirely in the mixture, but you might feel that you find something in your game, you are delighted to come back and leave.
“Yeah, pending the week. This is the kind of perfect hunter for what Oakmont was last week, and pleasant to go out on a golf course where you think you can do a lot of birdies.”
The TPC River Highlands is a friendly course filled with possibilities of birdies and low scores, to the great pleasure of McILroy.
“I think it’s welcome, especially after-look, the guys who played a memorial, it was a version,” he said. “Listen, there are a lot of guys on the ground this week when it is their fourth consecutive tournament, so yes, they have been put to the test in recent weeks, and it is a welcome configuration where they feel like they can relax a little and not have to grind so much for your score.”
The Travelers championship, the last signature event of the season, is the last PGA Tour of McILroy event before returning to Europe before a big July.
McILroy will be under the spotlight all week in his northern native Ireland when the open championship is played in Royal Portrush.
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