{"id":582363,"date":"2026-05-13T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582363\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:43:09","slug":"rory-mcilroy-totally-fine-for-us-pga-championship-after-toe-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582363\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy &#8216;totally fine&#8217; for US PGA Championship after toe issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A switch of footwear and extra padding helped the world number two from Northern Ireland as he sought to complete his preparations for the second major of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I figured it out and separated the little toe from the other ones and a bit of cushion around it definitely helped,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And then just going to a bigger shoe and a different style of shoe as well, a little wider and a little softer in the toe box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s half a size up and it&#8217;s a wide fit so there&#8217;s just a bit more room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McIlroy says he does not feel pain while hitting shots but the 7,394 yard Aronimink is a demanding and undulating walk. &#8220;I was pleasantly surprised how good it felt,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Walking downhill, whenever your foot slides into the very end of your shoe is when it maybe gives me a bit of bother but it&#8217;s totally fine. A mountain out of a molehill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McIlroy, who successfully defended his Masters title at Augusta last month begins his attempt to win a third US PGA title at 13:40 BST (08:40 local time) in a group that includes fellow major winners Jordan Spieth and Jon Rahm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A switch of footwear and extra padding helped the world number two from Northern Ireland as he sought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-582363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}