World No.3 Rory McIlroy Rory McIlroy insisted he had ‘unfinished business’ with the Open at Portrush after his disappointing display when the event was last held there. After a 68-year absence, the Open was held in Northern Ireland for just the second time in 2019, with McIlroy entering the week as the pre-tournament favourite. But the home-country hero buckled under the pressure, making a quadruple bogey eight on the first hole of the tournament en route to missing the cut in agonising fashion.
McIlroy missed the cut the last time the Open was held in his home country ‘I love that we’re playing the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in May, which is typically when we played the Wells Fargo,’ McIlroy told Sky Sports. ‘It’s when I know the golf course the best and sort of I know that it’s going to play, you know, the characteristics.