struggled to find motivation<\/a> after slipping on the green jacket. However, he has pinpointed his next objective.\u00a0<\/p>\nSign Up Now. SI Golf Newsletters. Sports Illustrated\u2019s Free Golf Newsletters. dark<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, since the Open passed, it\u2019s the one thing I\u2019ve really been looking towards and making sure my game is in the best possible shape,\u201d McIlroy said Wednesday ahead of the DP World Tour\u2019s Irish Open. \u201cI think we have a wonderful opportunity to do something\u2014honestly, one of the greatest achievements in the game right now is to win an away Ryder Cup, and I think this European team has a great opportunity to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the past decade, the home team has claimed the Ryder Cup each time. The last time a road team won the biennial matches was in 2012, when the Europeans pulled off the \u201cMiracle at Medinah.\u201d Now, Europe will be tasked with ending that drought at a raucous Bethpage Black in New York.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know it\u2019s going to be very tough,\u201d McIlroy said, \u201cbut I honestly think we have 12 guys and the captain and the vices and everyone else involved, we\u2019ve got all the ingredients. We just need to put them in the oven, and hopefully it all works out for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
McIlroy has played in every Ryder Cup since 2010; therefore, he has a road victory under his belt. But 2025 was the year he checked every box he wanted to in his individual career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And if Europe can go back-to-back, this season will stand above the rest for the five-time major champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess it\u2019s the year that everything came together for me,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cIt was basically the one piece of the puzzle that was left for me to complete. When I look at my career and my whole picture as a golfer, I basically, I\u2019ve done everything I wanted to. I guess everything after that, it\u2019s a bonus, but you have to reassess your goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgain, the one thing for me\u2014obviously, I\u2019d love to win this week. I\u2019d love to win next week at Wentworth. But the one thing for me this year to reassess my goals, an away Ryder Cup, after everything that\u2019s happened this year, would be\u2014I would look back on 2025, and there\u2019s no way that I would\u2014if I did have a better year in the game, I\u2019d love to see it.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if we were to win an away Ryder Cup with everything else that I\u2019ve been through this year, 2025 would be the best year of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy has had an all-time year.\u00a0 The 36-year-old Northern Irishman jumped out of the gate by winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-116298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}