{"id":540780,"date":"2026-03-16T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540780\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:00:08","slug":"rory-mcilroy-will-see-how-body-feels-and-assess-schedule-before-masters-rory-mcilroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540780\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy will see how \u2018body feels\u2019 and assess schedule before Masters | Rory McIlroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rory McIlroy will weigh up whether to play another event before the defence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/14\/rory-mcilroy-secures-career-grand-slam-after-dramatic-masters-playoff-win-over-justin-rose\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his Masters title<\/a> next month after an underwhelming outing at the Players Championship. He was the defending champion at TPC Sawgrass, but his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/11\/liv-to-remain-frozen-out-of-players-championship-says-pga-tour-chief-executive\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preparation was hampered<\/a> by a back injury and he finished in a disappointing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/15\/cameron-young-matt-fitzpatrick-players-championship-golf\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tie for 46th<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI\u2019ll see how my body feels,\u201d said the world No 2. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how I feel in practice and at home and if I get itchy feet at home maybe add an event at some point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIt was important to make the weekend here and play an extra couple of days. I\u2019m happy I got through four days and my body feels good. My game got a little bit better as the week went on, even though the scores probably didn\u2019t reflect it over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cSee how the next week goes, see how once I get back to a full practice schedule and in the gym and stuff like that, see how my body reacts to that, and then I\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy will weigh up whether to play another event before the defence of his Masters title next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-540780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}