{"id":52948,"date":"2026-08-19T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/52948\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:18:10","slug":"rory-mcilroy-shares-his-goal-for-the-bmw-championship-after-recent-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/52948\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy shares his goal for the BMW Championship after recent struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rory McIlroy<\/a> admits just seeing an improvement in his performance at the BMW Championship in St Louis<\/a> would feel like a win.<\/p>\n

The world number two laboured to an eight-over finish at last week\u2019s St Jude Championship, finishing third bottom of the leaderboard as Scottie Scheffler<\/a> coasted to victory.<\/p>\n

It continued a run of frustrating performances from the back-to-back Masters champion, who had returned to action in Memphis<\/a> for the first time since he tied for 40th at The Open.<\/p>\n

\"RoryRory McIlroy endured another frustrating run at the St Jude Championship in Memphis (George Walker IV\/AP) (AP)<\/p>\n

McIlroy \u2013 who will be playing alongside Xander Schauffele<\/a> as part of the early afternoon wave at Bellerive Country Club \u2013 hopes to make the most of another opportunity to gauge just where he needs to refocus his game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if you come into events and all you are thinking about is winning, then there is a lot more to golf than that, right? It is not as binary as you win or you lose,\u201d McIlroy said at a pre-tournament press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have had fifth place finishes that have felt like wins to me because I haven\u2019t played very well during the week, but I have got as much out of my game as I can.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf somehow I am able to put myself in a position to win this week, that would be amazing, but I think just seeing some progress this week from where I was last week would be a \u2018win\u2019 for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a process, a journey. Obviously you try to build up to those moments where you do put yourself in position to win, but I have played 280-290 PGA Tour events, I won 30 of them, so there is a lot of times where you walk away where you don\u2019t win and you have to take the positives from those as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regardless of his result at Bellerive, McIlroy, sitting 13th in the play-off standings, is still assured of making to the 30-man season-ending Tour Championship, where he could yet win an unprecedented fourth FedExCup and his first since 2022.<\/p>\n

McIlroy is also set to play at the Irish Open in Doonbeg next month and then the BMW Championship closer to home at Wentworth as the DP World Tour also moves towards a conclusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am playing five of the next six weeks, so over the course of a calendar year, I still play more than most of the top guys because I play on both tours,\u201d the Northern Irishman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is just trying to find that balance, and then trying to be home enough \u2013 it is (daughter) Poppy\u2019s first day of school today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have loved to have been home for that, but I am here, so it is just stuff like that, things I didn\u2019t have 10 years ago that I have these days. I am in a different spot in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1401],"class_list":["post-52948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xander-schauffele","tag-xander-schauffele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52948","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=52948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}