{"id":30440,"date":"2026-07-01T21:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/30440\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:44:10","slug":"rory-mcilroy-shows-off-green-jacket-as-europe-ryder-cup-stars-enjoy-day-out-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/30440\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy Shows Off Green Jacket As Europe Ryder Cup Stars Enjoy Day Out At Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A lot has been made of Rory McIlroy’s schedule<\/a> of late, and on Wednesday his non-golfer calendar contained a European Ryder Cup day out at Wimbledon to take in some tennis<\/p>\n

McIlroy was sporting his Masters Green Jacket<\/a> after successfully defending his title at Augusta National, and took the acclaim of the Centre Court crowd as he was joined by several team mates and captain Luke Donald.<\/p>\n

Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose were also at SW19 along with Thomas Bjorn and both Molinari brothers, Francesco and Edoardo, as Team Europe had a day out in Wimbledon’s exclusive Royal Box to celebrate their victory at Bethpage last year.<\/a><\/p>\n

McIlroy’s brilliant second successive Masters victory in April meant that he has another year of donning his Green Jacket out in public – as long as he gets permission from Augusta National as is the protocol.<\/p>\n

McIlroy has recently moved back to the UK with a new home set up in the exclusive Wentworth estate, and he’s spent time settling in with his family in between rare PGA Tour appearances and playing in the Majors.<\/p>\n

The Northern Irishman has regularly skipped PGA Tour events in order to prepare for the Majors<\/a> and enjoy life outside of golf, something which he’s determined to carry on doing.<\/p>\n

He’ll likely fall short of playing the minimum tournament requirement<\/a> to retain PGA Tour membership, but the Tour recently said that as a life member for hitting 20 wins he’d have a lower threshold to meet so would have no problems for 2027.<\/p>\n

The six-time Major champion is a well-known tennis fan and has been to various big events before, including Wimbledon, and he was joined at the All England Club by wife Erica and his Ryder Cup teammates.<\/p>\n

Justin Rose and wife Kate were also pictured at Wimbledon along with Tommy Fleetwood and two-time winning captain Luke Donald<\/a> and wife Diane.<\/p>\n

After a crushing victory in Rome followed by historic success in New York, Donald is looking to win three in a row next year when the Ryder Cup returns to Ireland at Adare Manor.<\/p>\n

Jim Furyk is having his second spell as Team USA captain in 2027 hoping to thwart Donald’s three-peat and also end the long wait for an American win in Europe that now stretches back 33 years.<\/p>\n

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Donald had his backroom boys with him too, as Thomas Bjorn, a victorious captain in Paris back in 2018, attended with Italian brothers Francesco and Edoardo Molinari.<\/p>\n

Francesco is tipped as a future captain after Donald, while Edoardo is the statistical brains behind the operation with his analysis on pairings and course management often cited as a crucial difference in Ryder Cups.<\/p>\n

Whether the conversation drifts off to potential pairings for Ireland or course setup at Adare Manor during breaks in play we won’t find out – as the European Ryder Cup stars enjoy watching the likes of Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic among other big hitters of the tennis world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[552,1959,4146,1146,1493,144,399,2891,7293,714,6886],"class_list":["post-30440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ryder-cup","tag-ryder-cup","tag-getty-images","tag-green-jacket","tag-justin-rose","tag-luke-donald","tag-pga-tour","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-team-europe","tag-thomas-bjorn","tag-tommy-fleetwood","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}