PGA Tour: Truist Championship : Tee Times Leaderboard
EDIT 26/05/07 840am >>>>Due to heavy rain play has been delayed until Noon off tee's #1 and #10 est in groups of three.
Rory McIlroy is the man at Quail Hollow having won 4 times in his sparkling career, as the 6th signature event of the season worth $20,000,000 gets under way this week, for years the Wells Fargo now sponsored by Truist a financial services company based in Charlotte NC.
Remarkable to remember Rory set the Quail Hollow 18 hole course record 61 in round 3, 2015 when a certain kid called Scott Scheffler was learning the game as an 18 year old high school student.
The world's No. 2-ranked player said he feels "more motivated" than ever heading into a major stretch that includes the PGA Championship next week outside of Philadelphia and the U.S. Open next month at Shinnecock Hills. First up, though, is this week's Truist Championship at Quail Hollow, where McIlroy earned his first PGA TOUR victory 16 years ago.
It's been more than three weeks since McIlroy slipped on the green jacket for a second time after becoming just the fourth player in 90 years to go back-to-back at the Masters.
The 37-year-old McIlroy spent most of his time at his home in Jupiter, Florida, although he did visit New York with his wife Erica Stoll and attended a White House state dinner held for King Charles III and Queen Camilla.
"I gave myself a good 10 days to enjoy myself and then thought I needed to get back on the range and start to practice and get ready for this stretch coming up," McIlroy said. The stretch begins today with the tuneup at Quail Hollow, a place where McIlroy is adored by fans and often serenaded with the "Happy Birthday" song given the tournament often falls during his birthday. He was 20 when he won his first PGA TOUR tournament here, earning him immediate popularity in Charlotte. In some ways, he's become the city's adopted golfer.
"I really feel like this tournament got my career going," McIlroy said. "This is 16 years I've been coming here, so it's been a fun place, I've had success. It's somewhere I always love coming back to."
"I felt like winning the Grand Slam was going to be this life-changing thing and in some ways it was, but in other ways I had to remember like, 'No, I still have a lot of my career left and I want to keep playing and keep competing,'" he said. "So this year I think winning was validation for all the work that I've put in over the last few years to get myself back to this place where I'm winning majors."
Bryan Angus
Associated Press
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