{"id":51827,"date":"2026-08-17T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/51827\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:26:14","slug":"rory-mcilroy-felt-lost-after-fedex-st-jude-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/51827\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy Felt \u2018Lost\u2019 After FedEx St. Jude Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/rory-mcilroy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rory McIlroy<\/a> did not mince words after a nearly last-place finish at the 2026 FedEx St. Jude Championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cObviously didn\u2019t come in here with a ton of reps,\u201d he told reporters after his final round on Sunday, August 16. \u201c[It] almost felt like the more the week went on, the more I felt lost with my golf swing a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">McIlroy, 37, finished 66th out of 68 at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee, the first of three events in the PGA Tour\u2019s FedExCup Playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe swing wasn\u2019t in sync and obviously I didn\u2019t do a ton of practice coming in here,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cI\u2019m so far away from where I need to be to even feel like I have a chance. I\u2019ve just got to keep working and hope it turns around a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">McIlroy had not played since the 2026 Open Championship in mid-July, amid his desire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/sports\/news\/rory-mcilroy-makes-personal-life-admission-amid-absences\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to maintain a lighter schedule<\/a> this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI guess nice to shake the rust off a little bit, but I\u2019m going to have to work pretty hard between now and next Thursday to feel like I have any sort of golf game to compete next week,\u201d McIlroy said, pointing to this week\u2019s BMW Championship, which starts Thursday, August 20, at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He added, \u201cTo me it\u2019s more about obviously the execution of what I\u2019m doing right now, and the execution wasn\u2019t there this week. I\u2019m going to have to sort of put the head down and grind from now until Thursday to try to feel like I have any sort of chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">McIlroy is currently 13th in the season-long FedExCup Playoff standings. The top 30 golfers will advance to the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta later this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler won the 2026 St. Jude Championship in a rout, finishing 17-under par, eight strokes better than second-place finisher, Si Woo Kim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tThank You!<\/p>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI felt like a week like this was coming,\u201d Scheffler, 30, said after his victory. \u201cI felt like I was on repeat all year just being like, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m playing solid. I\u2019m close.\u2019 It feels good to be answering some different questions at the end of this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It marked Scheffler\u2019s 21st career tournament win, but his first since The American Express tournament in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI felt like I found something just getting my hands on the club,\u201d Scheffler added. \u201cI had a really good kind of prep week coming in, probably the best I played at home over the course of this year. I didn\u2019t really feel like I needed to be on the range hitting balls. I was just getting out playing, competing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy did not mince words after a nearly last-place finish at the 2026 FedEx St. Jude Championship.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[6490,270,399,56],"class_list":["post-51827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rory-mcilroy","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51827","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=51827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}