{"id":477004,"date":"2026-02-19T02:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477004\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T02:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:52:08","slug":"rory-mcilroy-world-number-two-confident-ahead-of-genesis-invitational-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477004\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy: World number two confident ahead of Genesis Invitational bid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rory McIlroy is happy with his game as he prepares to challenge for a first Genesis Invitational success at the Riviera Country Club.<\/p>\n

The world number two will tee off on Thursday with Tommy Fleetwood and Collin Morikawa, who is coming off his victory at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am <\/a>last Sunday.<\/p>\n

McIlroy finished in a tie for 14th, five shots behind Morikawa but hitting an impressive final-round 64 as he builds up to the defence of his Masters title in April.<\/p>\n

“I’m working through that first bit of the year where I’m trying to shake a bit of rust off,” said the five-time major winner.<\/p>\n

“I learnt a lot about my game last week. I played well for a lot of it but made some big numbers which put me out of contention on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“I feel there is enough good in there for me to be encouraged going out there this week.<\/p>\n

“I think the fact that I’m hitting a lot of good shots, putting it close and converting a lot of putts, that has to give me confidence not just for this week but going forward.”<\/p>\n

McIlroy’s best finish in the tournament came four years ago when he ended in joint 10th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy is happy with his game as he prepares to challenge for a first Genesis Invitational success…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-477004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}