Double PGA Championship winning Rory McIlroy revealed he had to get the famed Rodman Wanamaker trophy repaired after someone  dropped the gleaming symbol of PGA Championship success.

It was after McIlroy had broken through to win a second Major Championship by eight strokes in capturing the 2012 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island.

“We had to get the guys from the PGA of America to come out after the Wanamaker Trophy was dropped,” said McIlroy.

“There was like this little bunch of grapes right at the top of the trophy and they broke off from the trophy and they had to be soldered back on.”

The first photo of Rory McIlroy with the Claret Jug and the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy and with an ornate bunch of grapes atop of the trophy needed to be soldered back on after it was dropped following McIlroy’s first PGA Championship victory in 2012.   (Photo – Eoin Clarke/www.golffile.ie)

As well, there is the tale of the U.S. Open trophy that went missing somewhere in China.

It was at a time when McIlroy changed management companies from Chubby Chandler’s ISM to Horizon Sports Management.

It was late 2011 and the trophy had been shipped by ISM to Shanghai and for McIlroy to have the trophy on display at the inaugural Lake McLaren Shanghai Masters and now the BMW Masters.

However it was a good few days before China customs officials agreed to release the trophy sitting in its special protective case.

And McIlroy also revealed the one trophy he most sought before turning pro in late 2007.

“If there was one trophy I really wanted to cherish as an amateur it was the Silver Medal and awarded each year to the low amateur at the Open Championship,” he said.

“I had heard of just so many people winning the Silver Medal and that was my that I wanted to win for a long while.

“I did win it at Carnoustie in 2007 and the medal is now at my mum and dad’s house but to have been handed the Silver Medal was probably the proudest trophy I won as an amateur.”