US Open golf: Rory McIlroy makes pre-major driver change and in ‘better place’ ahead of Oakmont | Golf News

Rorre McLeroy has returned to a familiar driver before the US Open, as he looks forward to “forgetting” the recent disappointments and continues his impressive major record.

Mcilroy became only the sixth player to complete the Grand Slam profession after his dramatic victory in April, despite his failure to compete in the PGA championship last month before losing the reduction in the RBC Canadian Open last week.

World 2 was forced to shift at the last minute at the club before Quail Hollow, after his Taylory Qi10 driver “player Taylormade – which helped him to the great glory in Ugusta National – is considered unacceptable after routine inspection.

Mcilroy used a backup driver at the end of 47 and moved to the new Taylormade Qi35 driver before the Canadian RBC Open, where he admitted “still looking for a missing piece of the starting point” after completing the 149-is the lowest position in his career in the PGA tour.

The main hero said five times that he will test a few drivers during the weekend.

“He hit many drivers, every driver has his own personality and tries to manage errors,” McLeroy said at his press conference before the tournament. “It is definitely a little two.

“I feel, as before the past few weeks, I think I learned a lot on Thursday and Friday last week. I have done a little training at home and I feel I am in a better place with everything this week.”

Mcilroy revealed that he got 11-Ever 81 during a training tour of “almost impossible Oakmont” on June 2, before he lower it in Canada, although his last hoof in “did not feel that he played so bad.”

On the training he gained with drivers during the past week, Mcilroy added: “I learned that I was not using the right driver!”

The Scotie Scheffler driver in the No. 1 world was not identical before the PGA championship, although he still has to win five shots to score a third main title.

“It wasn’t big for Scottie, so it shouldn’t have been a big problem for me, “Mcilroy admitted.

The three Mcilroy goals to finish the season

The 36 -year -old previously revealed that “it was difficult to find the motivation to return to the horse and go again” since he succeeded in the four major championships, although disappointing finishes in his last two games helped him to switch focus with the rest of the 2025 campaign.

“I think he is trying to get a little memory loss and forget what happened six weeks ago, then just trying to find the motivation to return there and work hard as I was working.”

“I worked incredibly hard in my game from October last year to April this year. It was good to see the fruits of my work that pays its fruits and achieve everything. But at the same time, you should enjoy what you just accomplished.

“I definitely feel that I am still doing that and I will continue to do so, but at some point, you should realize that there is more the remaining golf to play this season. There is here, Royal Portrush, the Ryder Cup … It is clear that these three big things I am looking for for the rest of the year.

“I think weeks like Quail Hollow or even weeks like last week, which makes it easy to reset in some way, to be like,” well, I need to collect my things here and return to the process. “

Mcilroy has evolved into the open United States competitor

Mcilroy stormed an eight view of the 2011 US Open Championship, which is its first main title, but he missed three consecutive discounts from 2016 before it ended worse than ninth in each of its last six aspects.

He finished second in Winddham Clark in 2023 before he was painfully absent to Praison Deschambo last June, where three of his last four holes were sung to finish one shot behind it, as Mcilroy completely embraced the difficult circumstances it faces annually in the United States Open.

“I felt that I was better than that reputation [someone who struggles on US Open set-ups]”This is somehow driven by the ego. [2018] It was really difficult because I loved this golf field, and performed the way I did there, you really hurt me.

“I think it was that week where we were [PGA Tour] But last week I had no idea what to do? So, when I made the decision at the background of 2018 until 2019, I want to try to build my game about the most difficult tests we have in the game.

“After that, as I saw since 2019, it is clear that six years in a row in this tournament, ranked second in the past two years in a row, and has certainly become an open player more confident in the United States and I am more comfortable in these firm groups.

“The United States has moved from the least of my favorite specialization to my favorite because of what it asks you, and I love this challenge.”

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