Rory McIlroy hit just 30 of 56 fairways during the Memorial Tournament this weekend and vented his frustration with the driver.
“It was sort of like two steps forward, one step back,” McIlroy said. “Off the tee still wasn’t where I want it to be. I feel limited at the minute. Thankfully the fairways at Shinnecock are a little wider than they are here.
“I need to work on how I’m hitting it off the tee. But everything else, [my] putting felt pretty good for the most part and my iron play and wedges were pretty nice. I’ll just try to keep getting a little bit better each and every day heading into Shinnecock.”
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His comments come just over a week before the year’s third major championship, the U.S. Open tees off from Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on June 18. The good news for McIlroy is that he seems to know why he’s struggling with the driver.
“I get a little bit underneath the plane on the way down and then from there I try to drag the handle to match it up, and then I get toe strikes, and then the toe strikes are — like, so if I’m aiming a touch left trying to hit a cut and I get a touch underneath it and then I try to save it by dragging the handle, I hit it off the toe and then it goes left,” he said.
McIlroy enjoyed another great season on tour, winning the Masters for the second straight time and becoming just one of three players to finish inside the top 10 in both the Masters and the PGA Championship, where he finished in a tie for seventh place.
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