Rory McIlroy on learning from Scottie Scheffler, achievement of progress and victory PGA Tour on Pebble Beach | Golf news
In our game I would call some places where I would call the Golf Cathedral – Pebble Beach, Augusta National, ST Andrews, and maybe a few you could add inside.
They mean a little more than others, which is probably related to the history and golfers who won these courses and what these people meant to play golf. Entering last week, I had a great oily zero in all these areas, so it was finally to overthrow one in Pebble very cool.
I am a great historian of the game and I remember all the championships that were played here, and adding my name to that list is pretty cool.
It was a great week for many different reasons-Rupa one during the first round, playing Cypress Point for the first time and obviously got a win. I couldn’t want a better start for my PGA Tour season.
Since last fall, I have been in nice shape and played some really good golf and continued this this year. It’s a great way to start my year.
‘I am very well rounded up golfer’
The descent of the last hole in Pebble with three hits and be able to enjoy it was really nice.
It was special to have time to stand on the 18th. Tee box and just honestly look at one of the most beautiful holes in the golf and enjoy it, enjoy a walk 18 and not feel like there is too much pressure.
For half 18 years, I rooted Shane (Lowry) to make a four, so I would finish second. It was great to be able to have it and also share this victory with Harry (Diamond, his tub). I am the one who has to raise the trophy, but there are a lot of people behind me and it’s good to be able to share it with them.
Pebble Beach is a very different test from what you would usually expect at the US Open. However, I think my game can travel to any golf course in any conditions, in any setting. I feel like I’m very well rounded Golfer and I can adapt to what I need to adjust.
I could show this over the weekend, especially during the third round with the wind and rainy conditions. They can win different places, different tests, solid courses, soft courses, windy, calm, rain, long golf courses, short golf courses. Everything I feel is thrown away, I feel like I’m ready to deal with it.
With more experience, sometimes I became better with the strategy and selecting conservative goals, and maybe I select more conservative clubs. Another big deal is obviously my short game.
Last year, it was a little worse and down where I would have a good week and then I would have a bad week. There was no ton of consistency in it. For example, up and down on the first hole during the last round, it’s big up and down just to get things started.
Mcilroy ‘more equipped’ to process trouble
I’m a big fan of Scottie’s Scheffler for many different reasons and every time I play with him – and watch how he plays and how disciplined he is – it’s a really cool thing to watch.
I try to get the sheet out of his book a little. When one of your peers has a year as it did last year, and honestly a year as in 2023, you start noticing what he was doing and what made him or helped him separate from the rest of the field.
There are impulses that I have on the golf course that Scottie seems to be and I have to install them, and I have to try to be a little more disciplined about it.
For me, it’s actually a try to get the best out of myself. I know I can play my options and do what I did a little more, the world charts or a PGA Tour career victory will take care of myself.
Scottie is and has been the best player in our game in the last few years and I feel like I was close. It’s motivating to try to get the best out of myself and try to become the best player in the world.
I want to do the right things every day, which is consistent, discipline, enough sleep, eat the right diet, do the right amount of practice, recovery, creating time for other interests in my life that can get me out of me and Golf a little.
It has always been a mental side for me. This is probably the biggest barrier between me that I am good and great.
For the most part during my career, I had physical attributes and hit the ball for a long time and I could do things that other guys might not do it, but sometimes it was my mind or my thought processes that kept me a little.
I think I’m much better equipped now to deal with what I was thrown at.
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