Rory McIlroy fires not-so-subtle warning to rivals after PGA Tour star's near misses

Rory McIlroy is successful the hunt for his archetypal BMW PGA Championship triumph since 2014 this weekend, and the PGA Tour prima has insisted helium isn't acceptable to consciousness atrocious for himself aft his disappointing form

Rory McIlroy insists helium isn't acceptable to dilatory down immoderate clip soon contempt immoderate disappointing form, and expressed helium ne'er wanted to wallow successful aforesaid pity aft past week's decision astatine the Irish Open.

The erstwhile world No.1 suffered yet different Sunday illness past weekend, arsenic helium surrendered a comfy pb to Rasmus Hojgaard, who carded an unthinkable six-under last time to assertion triumph by conscionable 1 shot. The decision came conscionable months aft his celebrated slip-up astatine the US Open, which denied him a archetypal large championship successful a decade.

But McIlroy didn't hold astir for different wound astatine the cherry, flying consecutive to England to vie successful the BMW PGA Championship astatine Wentworth, a tourney helium besides hasn't won successful 10 years. He started strongly, and is among the leaders arsenic helium plays his circular connected Saturday.

Speaking aft his Friday round, McIlroy explained his reasoning for getting consecutive backmost into the plaything of things, saying: "Yeah, I deliberation it's truly important, but also, it's nice. I wouldn't person liked the week disconnected to conscionable wallow successful self-pity and immoderate other I would person been doing if I had not played.

"To travel backmost retired and get consecutive backmost connected the golf people and play a mates of coagulated rounds and springiness myself different accidental astatine a truly large tourney that means a batch to me, I thought it was important to bash that and thankfully I have."

McIlroy besides reflected connected his past Wentworth win, which came a fewer weeks earlier his successes astatine The Open and the PGA Championship - the second is his astir caller large win.

He said: "Going into that Sunday, I deliberation I was 7 behind. So I had nary existent ambition of winning the play tournament. I didn't deliberation it was going to beryllium a possibility. But I retrieve Thomas Björn and Luke Donald some got disconnected to beauteous dilatory starts, and I had gotten disconnected to a bully 1 and each of the abrupt recovered myself with a accidental to triumph the tourney and really played a truly bully backmost 9 to get the occupation done.

"Yeah, it's 10 years agone but the memories are inactive beauteous vivid. It's been a large 10 years. I consciousness similar I've achieved astir things I've wanted to bash successful the crippled successful those 10 years. Been portion of unbelievable Ryder Cup teams and had immoderate large idiosyncratic success."

McIlroy ended the property league with a stern message, stating: "I'm surely not done yet and privation to support going."