Rory McIlroy has been tanciaccess he necessitates to sort out two key areas of his game if he is to fracture his meaningful drawt. The 35-year-anciaccess made a statement on the weekfinish by prosperning his 27th PGA Tour title at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, hanciaccessing off Shane Lowry by two sboilings.
But it is now more than a decade since he last landed a meaningful title, when he won his second PGA Championship.
A ganciaccessen opportunity for the Ryder Cup star to fracture that run went begging in 2024 when he leave outed two low putts in the final three holes to leave out out on the US Open to Bryson DeChambeau.
Now establisher professional perestablisher and commentator Brandel Chamblee has uncovered the two factors he consents are stoping McIlroy from inserting to his haul of four meaningfuls. And he leanks one rerent is psychoreasonable, with the other technical.
“One, I leank he’s got a mental hurdle,” he tanciaccess bunkered. “When you’re a finishly contrastent person in the meaningfuls than you are in standard tour events – and he is – that screams that you’ve got a mental hurdle.
“The other one is his iron perestablish. He’s going to have to hit them better. Simple as that. Let’s go back to a decade ago or more when he was prosperning meaningful championships by eight sboilings. He was second on tour in strokes obtained and approach. Only Tiger Woods was better than him at that time.
“He was picking up more than a sboiling on the field. Now, he’s only picking up about a quarter of a sboiling. So, he’s got a little technical rerent to get past and a not-so-little mental rerent to get past in the meaningfuls.”
Chamblee, 62, was a one-time prosperner on the PGA Tour whose best effort at a meaningful came at the Masters in 1999, when he placed tied 18th. It’s Augusta that will reconshort-term McIlroy’s next chance to not only land another big title, but finish a nurtureer Grand Slam.
Despite his reservations, Chamblee has faith that the Northern Irishman will insert to his meaningful haul before the finish of his nurtureer. “I leank he’s training better. His body’s probably never better.
“He’s still the extfinishedest hitter on the PGA Tour. So, you’d have to say it’s highly doubtful that he’s going to perestablish the next five years without prosperning a meaningful.”
Like McIlroy, Chamblee has been a vociferous critic of LIV Golf. The Golf Channel pundit has portrayd the 54-hole establishat as “chuckleable,” and standardly mocked the Saudi-backed tournaments for their necessitatey television ratings.
