Rory McIlroy appeared on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night and taking part in a ‘Facebreakers Challenge’.
The idea was simple. McIlroy went head to head against Fallon in trying to chip golf balls at targets designed as each other’s faces on a glass wall 10 yards away.
There was 12 glass panels with six faces of McIlroy and six of Fallon.
Fallon had Woods in his corner to help guide him, but it was McIlroy who smashed all the faces of Fallon to scoop another award with Woods not participating.
And when McIlroy was presented with a small Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show trophy it already had McIlroy’s name on it.
Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods on Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show.
And Woods has admitted he believes he would not have won a single point had he been picked for the USA Ryder Cup team.
“I wouldn’t be ready … and I just couldn’t help the team,” Woods told Britain’s Sky Sports television in an interview.
“When your name is called you have to be able to go out there and get a point and I just didn’t feel I could be ready enough to get a point.
“It was time to shut it down, get stronger, get more explosive again and get back for next year.”
The now World No. 11 ranked Woods missed the cut at the U.S. PGA Championship this month, having made a late decision to play after pulling out of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational the week before.
He is not planning to pick up his clubs for another month but will work in the gym as he builds towards a return at the World Challenge tournament in Florida in the first week of December, an event he hosts.
“We’ve got it all calmed down, now it’s about the strengthening process,” said Woods.
“I probably won’t be swinging a club for another month but just getting stronger each and every day. I’m in the gym two or three times a day.
“I’ve got my physios, I’ve got my trainers there so we’re working hard and then we’re going to introduce dynamic training again, my explosiveness, but that’s down the road, let’s just get this thing stronger first.”
Woods played in the Ryder Cup seven times between 1997 and 2012, missing the U.S. victory in 2008 after knee surgery.
Europe have won seven of the last nine editions.
