TROON, Scotland – Keep in mind that time Rory McIlroy ghosted Tiger Woods?
To be truthful, McIlroy had a very good cause for not responding to a textual content message that Woods despatched him a few week after he’d loss final month’s U.S. Open to Bryson DeChambeau.
“Full disclosure, I modified my quantity two days after the U.S. Open, so I didn’t get it till he informed me about it at this time. I used to be like, oh, thanks very a lot,” McIlroy laughed Tuesday at The Open. “So, I blanked Tiger Woods, which might be not a very good factor.”
Woods informed the media Tuesday that he waited a few week “to let it relax” earlier than texting McIlroy and the Northern Irishman added that he appreciated the trouble, despite the fact that he by no means obtained the message.
“Tiger has been nothing however unimaginable to me over the course of my profession within the good moments and the unhealthy. He despatched me an unimaginable message after St. Andrews in 2022,” McIlroy mentioned. “It means rather a lot that he reached out. Really, it means rather a lot that he waited just a few days to achieve out, which if he hadn’t have waited that lengthy, I most likely would have gotten it.
“It’s all the time good when your hero and the man that you simply had in your bed room wall is reaching out and providing phrases of encouragement.”
McIlroy went on to elucidate that by the point he arrived residence following the ultimate spherical on the U.S. Open he’d obtained about 15 textual content messages from media members and he determined “it’s most likely time to get a brand new quantity. Create a little bit of area.”
