McIlroy: “I Climbed My Everest Back In April. You’ve Got To Look To Another Mountain To Climb”.

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Rory McIlroy returns to competition this week at the 2025 Travelers and while arriving back to Cromwell, Connecticut where he first competed in 2017 there is still the baggage of recent controversy.

Though first things first as in speaking with the assembled TPC Rivert Highlands media he develved into his method of decompression after last Sunday’s US Open final round where he posted a closing 67 for an eventual share of 19th place at seven-over at Oakmont.

“I wouldn’t say that’s the best recovery modality”, said McIlroy and a major championship that will be reminded as one that McIlroy will be reminded as the one he smashed a tee marker, hurl a golf club down the fairway and routinely avoid talking to the media. “I think everyone’s got their own way of recovering from grueling weeks,”

McIlroy explained. “I think they’re just the little habits that you pick up along the way, whether it’s physical or whether it’s mental or getting away from it and giving yourself a little bit of time to recharge.” He added, “But yeah, I think it’s important to take care of yourself physically and mentally.

“Especially when you play these big events and there’s a lot of pressure and expectation. It is important to get away from all of that, as well.”

In the midst of a busy PGA Tour schedule, McIlroy said he tries to “get back into” the right mindset beginning on Mondays. “I give myself that day,” he said. “I think Mondays in between tournaments are quite important as a reset.” McIlroy is part of a stacked field at the Travelers Championship, which includes 2025 U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun, Scottie Scheffler, Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele.

After his final round at the U.S. Open, McIlroy admitted he was struggling to find motivation after winning his first Masters championship in April, making him just the sixth golfer in history to win the career grand slam. “Look, I climbed my Everest in April, and I think after you do something like that, you’ve got to make your way back down, and you’ve got to look for another mountain to climb,” McIlroy said.

While he granted time to reporters on Sunday at the U.S. Open, McIlroy decided to opt out of speaking with them multiple times throughout the week. His unwillingness drew the ire of many in the golf world, including Irish golf legend Paul McGinley. “I don’t like to see that,” McGinley, 58, said on Saturday, June 14, according to GOLF.com.

“I think Rory’s better than that. Either not talking to the media or not giving a press conference like that doesn’t serve him fairly or rightly for the person he is.” McGinley added, “He looks like he’s had enough of everything. Whether it was the emotional release of everything that’s gone on in his career, I don’t know. But he’s not himself. This is not normal.”

  • Thanks in part to US Weekly.

 



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