{"id":91289,"date":"2025-08-23T13:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/91289\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:33:13","slug":"rory-mcilroy-no-longer-has-former-ryder-cup-team-captains-number-saved-in-his-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/91289\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy no longer has former Ryder Cup team captain’s number saved in his phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rory McIlroy has opened up on the ever-changing landscape of golf by explaining how he and his Ryder Cup teammates keep in touch and have kept in touch over the years<\/p>\n

08:29 ET, 23 Aug 2025Updated 08:35 ET, 23 Aug 2025<\/p>\n

\"RoryRory McIlroy opened up on the new ‘core group’ of Ryder Cup stars(Image: 2024 TGL)<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy will tee it up for Luke Donald’s European team at the Ryder Cup<\/a> next month, but the Northern Irishman opened up on the fast-changing nature of golf by admitting he doesn’t have some of his old teammates’ numbers.<\/p>\n

McIlroy is set for his eighth Ryder Cup when he heads to New York<\/a> to take on the Americans at Bethpage Black, having initially represented the continent in 2010 at Celtic Manor.<\/p>\n

His captain on that occasion was Welsh golf legend Colin Montgomerie, who has his own course he designed at Celtic Manor named in his honor. Montgomerie oversaw a dramatic win for Team Europe, winning 14.5 to 13.5.<\/p>\n

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McIlroy and Montgomerie have crossed paths on a number of occasions since then, but due to the ever-changing landscape of golf, Masters champion McIlroy admitted he doesn’t have the Welshman’s number anymore – as he discussed the ‘new generation’ of Europeans.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Tour Championship in Atlanta, Georgia, McIlroy opened up on his role in previous teams compared to this year’s.<\/p>\n

Asked whether there were any numbers in the Team Europe group chat from 2010 he didn’t recognize, he responded: “Yeah, geez, there’s — I don’t know if people have changed their numbers since then.<\/p>\n

\"ColinColin Montgomerie was Rory McIlroy’s captain at Celtic Manor in 2010<\/p>\n

“I would hope that they have. I’ve certainly changed mine a few times.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, I mean, obviously Monty was our captain back then. Pretty sure I don’t have Colin Montgomerie’s number right now. It’s changed a lot.<\/p>\n

“I played on Ryder Cup teams with all those guys that were sort of the core of that European team for a decade or more, and that’s who I started with.<\/p>\n

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“Now we’ve sort of created our own core group, and it’s the next generation, and that’s a cool thing.<\/p>\n

“There’s a few guys there that I probably don’t have their number anymore or they don’t have mine.”<\/p>\n

McIlroy has already qualified automatically for this year’s tournament, but his friend Shane Lowry is facing a nervous wait to discover if he’ll have to be a captain’s pick or not.<\/p>\n

The Irishman won’t earn any qualification points at this weekend’s Tour Championship, and could lose his automatic spot to Rasmus Hojgaard.<\/p>\n

Should Hojgaard finish in a two-way tie for 29th or better at the British Masters this weekend, he’ll snatch the qualification spot from Lowry, forcing him to be a captain’s pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy has opened up on the ever-changing landscape of golf by explaining how he and his Ryder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,1976,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-91289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91289","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=91289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}