Rory Mcilroy has done just about everything he dreamed of. He has won everywhere, filled his bank account with more money than he could spend in their lives and one of the biggest players ever to play the game.
Now 36, with a lot of gray hair and an understanding of his professional mortality, McIlroy is frank while looking at the last chapters of his career. He has been saying this for some time that he – Rory McIlroy, career Grand Slam Champion Current Active Face of the Sport – will give priority to what he wants and omit the rest. That was the case this year when he skipped three of the characteristic events of the PGA Tour and a Playoff event from Fedex Cup. That is the assessment of playing a more “worldwide” schedule that McIlroy will see later this year in India and Australia play, while the rest of the PGA Tour stable rests in their low season.
Those movements, he said, corresponded to the whims of the late career of tennis legend Roger Federer, so that McIlroy does not want to concentrate on money or try to vacuum as many trophies as possible, but on experiences that fill his soul.
“I want to play in different places in the world and experience things that I have never experienced before,” said McIlroy on Tuesday at Wentworth Golf Club prior to the BMW PGA championship. “Twenty years in a career, or 18 years, to be able to do things for the first time. So go to India and play for the first time or whatever that is, that fascinates me. I don’t want to call a tournament, but you go back to the same place, the same 15, 20 years in a row, it can become a little monotonous and a little bit of a little bit.
“I had a chat with Roger Federer, I don’t know, a few years ago, a bit at the end of his career, and he said he wanted to play many of the places he could never play in his career. So some of the smaller 250 events just because not many people had never seen him tennis before.”
The victory of McIlroy last week at the Amgen Irish Open was a memory of what he told us. That for Rory Mcilroy, at this point in his illustrious career, the only thing that speaks to him is: the Majors, National OpenS, the Ryder Cup, iconic locations and historical tournaments. All the other is water of a five -fold winner’s back.
And so you may have heard McIlroy recently say that although some top athletes have a problem to let go – they will play and play until the reality forces them to stop – he will not have that problem. He is 18 years old in a career, he still can’t believe he did. When it’s time to hang it up, he will do it and pop up here and there at large championships. Until then, he will play on his conditions for the rest of his career.
“I don’t want to sharpen here at the age of 50,” said McIlroy, repeated comments he made on the Players Championship. “I will pop up and play the Majors and have a good time, but you know, when I’m done, I am ready, when that is. That is certainly not now, but I am now closer to that point now than in 2007 when I became Pro.
“Again, at the moment I want to play golf if I want to play golf. I want to play at the locations I would like to go to, and I want to play the Majors and the Ryder Cup. That’s it. I am not going with minima or anything else. As if I will clearly do it to take care of my bit to keep my membership and all that I want to play where I want to play.”
It is ambitious to reach a point in life where you can follow a path that is only cut by joy and fulfillment. But Rory McIlroy has deserved the right to write the last chapters of his career in the way he wants, on the jobs he wants and plays for the trophies he cares about.
And win what while he is busy.
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