Rory McIlroy makes confident prediction after latest heartbreak at BMW PGA Championship

Rory McIlroy suffered his 2nd heartbreak successful the abstraction of a week aft helium was beaten by Billy Horschel to the BMW PGA Championship astatine Wentworth connected Sunday, conscionable a week aft decision astatine the Irish Open

Rory McIlroy suffered much last-day heartache erstwhile helium mislaid a melodramatic playoff to Billy Horschel astatine the BMW PGA Championship, but the world No.3 insisted: “Sooner oregon aboriginal it's going to extremity up successful a win.”

This summertime the Usterman has travel adjacent astatine the US Open, Olympics and past week’s Irish Open without sealing a victory. And adjacent with the autumnal temperatures astatine Wentworth this weekend, his luck did not change.

After struggling with his irons, a 46-foot eagle putt connected the 17th spread saw him leap into the stock of the pb with Thriston Lawrence connected 20-under par. He missed a 16-foot birdie putt connected the past for the title. And erstwhile Horschel birdied the last, the 3 men entered a sudden-death playoff connected the par-5 18th.

The South African was eliminated connected the archetypal hole. Both McIlroy and Horschel recovered the mediate of the greenish successful two, the Ulsterman’s eagle putt slid past the cupful earlier the American nailed his 25-footer to triumph this lawsuit for a 2nd time. For 2014 champion McIlroy, a achy precocious decision was besides a acquainted feeling.

But aft shooting a closing 67, helium said: “These things happen. It's golf and I'm playing well. Two weeks successful a row, I've played well. Just not rather good enough. Last week was a pugnacious one. But you know, blessed with wherever my crippled is and blessed wherever it's trending.

“It's conscionable the crippled is investigating maine a small much than it has done successful the past, but that's fine. If idiosyncratic had said: ‘You're going to crook up astatine Wentworth this week and sprout 20-under par, I'd take that. Only 2 radical person beaten maine successful the past 2 weeks. Only 1 idiosyncratic really. All I tin bash is support showing up and trying to play the play that I've been playing and sooner oregon aboriginal it's going to extremity up successful a win.”

“I deliberation for me, erstwhile I amusement up astatine a play tournament, I benignant of cognize that the tract has to bushed maine to person a accidental to win. That's however it feels. So that's a beauteous bully presumption to beryllium in. Even erstwhile I don't consciousness I'm playing my best, playing play bully capable to ever person a chance."

McIlroy has inactive won doubly this play - successful Dubai and the Wells Fargo Championship successful May - but has present passed the 10th day of his past Major win.

“It could person been a precise antithetic twelvemonth but the bully happening is there's adjacent twelvemonth and the twelvemonth aft and the twelvemonth aft and the twelvemonth after. If you deliberation of my vocation arsenic a 30-career journey, it's lone 1 twelvemonth successful a 30-year journey, and hopefully the different 29 are a small much productive oregon a small spot better.

“In presumption of years wherever I haven't been capable to get it done oregon consciousness similar I near thing retired there, I surely had years wherever I've felt worse. When you get yourself successful contention truthful much, inevitably you're going to person disappointments. Unfortunately I'm conscionable getting a small excessively utilized to feeling what it's similar erstwhile you bash and hopefully that tide volition turn.”

West Ham instrumentality Horschel was cheered to an other clip triumph by Irons co-owner Tripp Smith. “I perceive a batch of ‘West Ham’ and ‘Come On You Irons’ and ‘Up the Hammers’,” helium said. “I emotion Wentworth, I emotion London and the UK. It feels similar a 2nd location to me.”

The backmost 9 saw 5 antithetic leaders. Aaron Rai made six birdies successful his archetypal 12 holes but helium recovered h2o astatine the past for a 67. Overnight person Matteo Manaserro’s situation ended erstwhile helium drove into a ditch connected No.15 for bogey connected a mode to his closing 73. They finished tied 4th with halfway person Matthew Baldwin (69).