{"id":5921,"date":"2025-07-13T05:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5921\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T05:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:06:03","slug":"watch-rory-mcilroy-cracks-up-amanda-balionis-with-one-liner-about-his-new-haircut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5921\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Rory McIlroy cracks up Amanda Balionis with one-liner about his new haircut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Masters champion Rory McIlroy promised his hair will be the perfect length for the Ryder Cup in September after he made his move at the Genesis Scottish Open<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McIlroy<\/a> turned heads at the beginning of the week when he arrived at The Renaissance Club with a shorter hairstyle after a couple of weeks’ rest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Golf fans suggested the five-time major winner looked like Mr. Bean<\/a> when he took off his Nike cap to reveal a buzzcut.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McIlroy has now told CBS’ Amanda Balionis that he believed his haircut choice would make it look as though he wasn’t going grey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“What happened there, Rory?” she asked McIlroy after he tied the lead<\/a> with 18 holes remaining at the Scottish Open.<\/p>\n

“You know, I’m getting a little grey as everyone probably knows,” McIlroy said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I stupidly thought that by going shorter it would take the greys out, and if anything it makes me look more grey!”<\/p>\n

He added: “But, it will grow back. And it will be the perfect length come the Ryder Cup in September.”<\/p>\n

Balionis told McIlroy that it could be a good luck haircut, depending on what happens in the final round.<\/p>\n

“Who knows,” McIlroy said.<\/p>\n

Watch the moment here:McIlroy admits to having a ‘lull’<\/p>\n

When McIlroy fulfilled a childhood ambition of winning The Masters in April, many anticipated the unburdened Ulsterman would go on a tear and contend at each of the remaining three majors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But he has struggled for form since climbing his Everest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His PGA Championship was overshadowed by the fact his driver was deemed non-conforming by the USGA on the eve of the major.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And his angry behaviour stole the headlines at the US Open at Oakmont.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McIlroy has been a far more relaxed figure this week and he believes he is approaching the form that carried him to victory at Augusta National.<\/p>\n

“I think I’m pretty close to being back to the level I was at going into the Masters,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think I’ve had a little bit of a lull, which I feel is understandable. So I’m just getting back to the level that I know that I can play at.”<\/p>\n

Whatever happens on Sunday at the Scottish Open, McIlroy will head to Royal Portrush as a heavy favourite to lift the Claret Jug alongside Scottie Scheffler.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McIlroy said he has not played the course since he missed the cut when the major was held there last in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Harry [Diamond, his caddie] was there last week,” McIlroy said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They added a little bit of length to a couple of holes, four and seven, and they changed the seventh green but everything else is the same.”<\/p>\n

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