Rory McIlroy hopes that 2025 will not go down as the best season of his profession however he’s prepared to simply accept it he might by no means attain such heights once more.
Chatting with RTE’s Greg Allen after accepting his award because the 2025 RTE Sportsperson the Yr following a outstanding season, the Holywood star stated he hopes to go on to get pleasure from many extra “large moments” with the 2028 Olympic Video games and extra success in Majors and Ryder Cups on the prime of his checklist of targets.
“I am very proud to win my third RTE Sportsperson of the Yr,” McIlroy stated. “2025 has been an unimaginable yr for me. I feel if I rewound to 12 months in the past and I used to be wanting ahead to 2025, and what I assumed it might appear to be, I do not assume I might have got here up with this yr my wildest goals.
“The Masters, the Irish Open, the Ryder Cup. It has been a dream season, and I simply need to say to everybody at house, thanks a lot to your assist.
“I really feel it on the market on the golf course and once I’m travelling all over the world. And you understand, it isn’t misplaced on me how a lot assist I get from again house.”
As for his ambitions, he confessed that successful an Olympic medal in Los Angeles in 2028 is a transparent objective.
“Yeah, I feel that is a good level. I feel at this a part of my profession, I am in search of these, you understand, huge tournaments and big moments. Main championships in golf are a kind of. Ryder Cups. After which, you understand, clearly the Olympics.
“I’ve had a style of two Olympic Video games now, Tokyo and Paris, and I have been fairly near getting a medal each instances.
“So 2028 in LA I would love to offer myself one other probability to get on that podium and produce a medal again to Eire.”
After successful the AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am, The Gamers, the Masters, the Amgen Irish Open, the Ryder Cup on US soil and a seventh Race to Dubai, McIlroy admitted it is going to be robust to enhance on 2025.
“, I feel mentally, I’ve to be comfy with possibly that is going to be my greatest yr ever,” he stated. “Who is aware of? I hope it isn’t, you understand. I hope I nonetheless have many extra nice years forward of me.
“However you understand, it doesn’t matter what I do going ahead, I am solely ever going to have the ability to win my first Masters as soon as. And I actually loved that.
“And I’ve relished the chance to carry the inexperienced jacket all over the world and present it off.
“It has been a beautiful yr, however I nonetheless assume that I’ve acquired much more to attain. So I am nonetheless formidable.
“I nonetheless really feel fairly younger, injury-free, so hopefully I’ve a number of good years forward of me.”
