Rory McIlroy lifts lid on Tiger Woods intervention to turn his form around

Rory McIlroy in a ‘good place’ for Masters bid after ‘breakthrough’ last year

Rory McIlroy has revealed he has been working on his swing with Tiger Woods ahead of this week’s PGA Championship at Oak Hill. McIlroy headed into the opening major of the year at The Masters as a well-backed favourite but failed to make the cut. 

Things did not go to plan for the Northern Irishman as he carded five-over par across his two opening rounds. One week later, McIlroy then made the controversial decision to withdraw from the RBC Heritage.

The withdrawal proved to be a costly one, as the four-time major winner was docked £2.4 million of his Player Impact Programme bonus for missing his second elevated event of the season. McIlroy then returned at this week’s Wells Fargo Championship, but stumbled home to tied-47th finish.

The 33-year-old is somewhat out of form heading into this week’s major in Rochester, but he is no doubt hoping the help of Woods can turn things round. Speaking at the PGA Championship, he told Golf Channel: “I had a good chat with Tiger a couple of days after Quail Hollow about my swing.

“That was really helpful. It was just two guys talking about the golf swing. I was really appreciative of him reaching out to me and sharing his thoughts. When you have the greatest player of all time offering advice, you are not going to turn it down. 

“Since I spoke to him, I was really keen to go to the range and work on some things.” The problem seemingly lies with a two-way miss, with McIlroy seemingly unsure as to which way his miss will head off the club face. “The club was just getting a little bit out of position at the top and then sort of the sequence of events that followed from there,” he added. 

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“The Club face was getting a bit too open on the way back, really struggling to square it on the way down, and then sort of re-closure was getting a little too fast, throwing my hands on it, and sorta started to get the miss going both ways, especially at Quail Hollow. 

“So trying to sort of tighten the start lines up a little bit, keep a little bit more strength in the club face, feel a little bit more squareness throughout the swing.  That’s sort of what I’ve been working on over the last week or so. I’m certainly not a rookie at this point. I know what my tendencies are and I know what the feelings are to try to sort of get it back on a good path. I would expect this week to not have to deal with that so much.”

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