{"id":93337,"date":"2025-08-24T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93337\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:36:08","slug":"rory-mcilroy-makes-honest-admission-over-ryder-cup-relationships-golf-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93337\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy makes honest admission over Ryder Cup relationships – Golf – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rory McIlroy will represent Luke Donald’s European squad at the Ryder Cup next month,<\/a> but the Northern Irishman revealed the rapidly evolving nature of professional golf by confessing he no longer has contact details for some of his former teammates.<\/p>\n

McIlroy is preparing for his eighth Ryder Cup<\/a> appearance when he travels to New York<\/a> to face the Americans at Bethpage Black, having first competed for the continent in 2010 at Celtic Manor.<\/p>\n

His skipper during that debut was Welsh golfing icon Colin Montgomerie, who boasts his own designed course at Celtic Manor bearing his name. Montgomerie guided a thrilling victory for Team Europe, prevailing 14.5 to 13.5.<\/p>\n

McIlroy and Montgomerie have encountered each other numerous times since that triumph, but due to golf’s constantly shifting landscape, the Masters winner<\/a> acknowledged he no longer possesses the Welshman’s contact information – while discussing the ‘new generation’ of Europeans.<\/p>\n

During remarks at the Tour Championship in Atlanta, Georgia, McIlroy reflected on his position within previous squads versus this year’s roster.<\/p>\n

When questioned about whether any contact numbers in the Team Europe group chat from 2010 were unfamiliar to him, he replied: “Yeah, geez, there’s — I don’t know if people have changed their numbers since then.<\/p>\n

“I would hope that they have. I’ve certainly changed mine a few times. 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

“Now we’ve sort of created our own core group, and it’s the next generation, and that’s a cool thing. There’s a few guys there that I probably don’t have their number anymore or they don’t have mine.”<\/p>\n

DON’T MISS:<\/p>\n

McIlroy has already secured his spot in this year’s tournament, but his buddy Shane Lowry is anxiously waiting to find out if he’ll need to rely on a captain’s pick.<\/p>\n

Lowry won’t be earning any qualification points at the Tour Championship this weekend, and might lose his automatic spot to Rasmus Hojgaard.<\/p>\n

If Hojgaard ends up in a two-way tie for 29th place or better at the British Masters this weekend, he’ll take the qualification spot from Lowry, leaving him dependent on a captain’s pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy will represent Luke Donald’s European squad at the Ryder Cup next month, but the Northern Irishman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,1976,13261,82,51217],"class_list":{"0":"post-93337","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-ryder-cup","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-team-europe-ryder-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93337","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=93337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}