The Quail Hole Membership, which hosts this week’s PGA Championship, is the perfect place for Rory McIlroy to renew main championship motion after his Masters triumph final month.
The Northern Irishman not solely accomplished the profession Grand Slam with that win at Augusta Nationwide, he additionally notched a primary main win anyplace since 2014.
With an infinite weight lifted from his shoulders he now heads to what’s presumably his favorite golf course on the planet – the common host of the PGA Tour’s Truist (previously Wells Fargo) Championship.
“I like this place,” McIlroy mentioned of Quail Hole in 2019. “I even really feel like I don’t even must play that good and I can nonetheless get it spherical.”
Off three wins this 12 months and a prime 10 final week we all know he’s in type so he’ll fancy his possibilities of contending once more.
“I really feel like there’s nice movement to this golf course,” he added of the format. “It means that you can get out of your individual approach and I’ve obtained nice recollections right here.”
Forward of Thursday’s first spherical let’s check out 5 of the most effective of these recollections from his 4 wins at Quail Hole.
5. Third spherical 66 on debut in 2010
Earlier than this lap America was starting to doubt what all of the fuss was about. 2010 was McIlroy’s rookie 12 months on the PGA Tour and he’d didn’t land one prime 30. He’d additionally missed the reduce on the Masters.
He solely made the weekend on his Quail Hole debut by the pores and skin of his enamel, holing a nasty putt on the ultimate inexperienced to squeeze in by one, and he trailed the chief by 9 strokes. This Saturday 66 arrange a Sunday victory bid that may rework his profession.
4. Second spherical 66 to kickstart triumph in 2021
“I like bushes,” he mentioned on the match in 2019. “Severely. I like tree-lined golf programs. I like that it offers you definition, I like that it frames holes for you. I like that.”
He hadn’t preferred Quail Hole’s tree-lined fairways in 2021’s first spherical, needing 72 blows which left him eight photographs off the tempo in T73rd.
However a Friday 66 obtained him into the highest 5 and two weekend 68s sealed the deal.
3. Ultimate spherical 65 to win in 2024
Heading into the ultimate spherical final 12 months McIlroy trailed Xander Schauffele by one. A closing spherical battle appeared inevitable.
However, in fact, McIlroy blew his rival apart. Schauffele carded a level-par 71 whereas McIlroy powered his option to a 65 and wrapped up a five-shot victory.
“This course, greater than possibly every other on Tour, I can hit driver just about on each gap,” he mentioned. “It’s good to have that benefit. It’s an enormous issue why I’ve been ready to take action properly right here through the years.”
2. Third spherical 61 to arrange victory in 2015
Heading into the weekend of the 2015 version, McIlroy trailed the leaders by three. One of many pacesetters, Webb Simpson, carded a superbly respectable 68 and but discovered himself heading into the ultimate spherical 4 photographs behind McIlroy.
The Northern Irishman had carded his career-low Quail Hole whole of 61 to splay the sector.
His whole was 4 higher than the subsequent finest effort and a Sunday 69 confirmed a seven-shot victory.
“I’ve in all probability birdied each gap on this golf course,” he mentioned afterwards. “So I determine there’s no purpose why I shouldn’t do it once more. It’s a cool feeling.”
1. Ultimate spherical 62 to win in 2010
After that 66 in spherical three (see above) he trailed the lead by 4 and, after thrashing this sensational 62, he received by 4.
He had fairly merely ripped the sector aside and likewise blown away the beforehand sceptical onlookers. No-one might now doubt that McIlroy was not a particular golfer.
“I flushed it,” he mentioned and two days later celebrated his twenty first birthday in model.
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