No-one could have envisaged that 10 years on from his US PGA Championship win at Valhalla we have not seen Rory McIlroy add to his major tally, writes Iain Carter.
They should not have been playing. The only illumination came from forks of lightning, distant but uncomfortably close for a golf tournament to continue.
And not because of the devastating way he won at Quail Hollow last Sunday - a performance that reminded us of McIlroy in his absolute pomp. His rate of success was keeping company with legends. Natural talent allied with the cockiness that comes with knowing you are more gifted than your rivals made him an irresistible force.
It was a scrap and on the par-five 10th hole McIlroy was on the ropes playing his second from 283 yards out. He wanted a high draw from his fairway wood, instead it was a low mishit that flew in the opposite fashion. He wanted the win and needed it that night. Arriving on the 18th tee two ahead with playing partner Bernd Wiesberger, McIlroy was dismayed to find that the US pair were only just teeing off on the closing par-five hole.
“I think the guys up ahead were pretty unhappy with how it all unfolded. I got the result that I was looking for in the end and that's all that matters.” No-one could have envisaged that 10 years on we have not seen McIlroy add to his major tally. “At that point in my life, golf was absolutely everything to me,” he recently told Geoff Shackelford’s Quadrilateral sub stack.
Of the top 10 players that week in 2014, Jason Day is currently the highest ranked at 19 in the world. No one should argue with McIlroy’s astonishingly and enduringly consistent performances on the toughest tour in the game.
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