Rory McIlroy aiming for two of final three 2015 majors
This is when it all really began for Rory McIlroy a year ago. He had abruptly ended his engagement to Caroline Wozniacki, seemingly setting himself up for a tailspin of a summer.
Instead, he went out that week and won the BMW PGA Championship, the European Tour’s flagship event. From there, he went on to win his first Open Championship, the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and his second PGA Championship in three years.
The world No. 1 is aiming for a similar summer in 2015.
“There’s three majors left, and I feel like two of those major venues are going to set up really well with me, at St. Andrews and Whistling Straits,” McIlroy told Sky Sports ahead of this week’s BMW PGA Championship.
Of course, Chambers Bay, the U.S. Open host, is an unknown as it’s never held a major championship, but McIlroy demonstrated his game fits the other two venues in 2010, the last time both venues hosted their respective championships. At St. Andrews, McIlroy opened with 9-under 63 at the Old Course before shooting 80 in gale-force winds and still finishing in a tie for third, well behind eventual winner Louis Oosthuizen. Then at Whistling Straits, McIlroy finished just a shot out of the playoff between Martin Kaymer and Bubba Watson.
It could be another very good summer for the Ulsterman.
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