World number three ninth on FedExCup standings and aiming to improve his position prior to next week’s Tour Championship finaleRory McIlroy at Wilmington Country Club for the BMW Championship. `It’s a golf course that’s a little more up my alley compared to, say, last week in Memphis.'.
“If I went [to New York], I wouldn’t have been practicing or playing, and the one thing I needed to do was practice and play,” said McIlroy of his reasoning in getting to the course with his caddie, Harry Diamond, adding: Séamus Power and Shane Lowry, paired together for the opening round, are on the outside looking in and need good weeks in the no-cut tournament to get back inside the top-30.
“Like if or not, they can’t really sell Tiger Woods any more. The Tour had an easy job for 20 years. They don’t have Tiger [any more]. They have got a bunch of us and we’re all great players but we’re not Tiger Woods. We’re moving into a different era, and we just have to think about [doing] things a little differently.