{"id":159849,"date":"2025-06-05T09:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159849\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T09:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:26:15","slug":"rory-mcilroy-admits-struggling-for-motivation-after-legacy-defining-masters-success-as-he-reveals-reset-ahead-of-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159849\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy admits struggling for motivation after legacy-defining Masters success as he reveals &#8216;reset&#8217; ahead of US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Rory McIlroy revealed he has had a reset as he sets new goals for the future\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>McIlroy completed the full set of majors by winning the Masters back in April\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>He then finished a disappointing 47th at the PGA Championships last month\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-198\/riath-al-samarrai.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIATH AL-SAMARRAI<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  18:09 EDT, 4 June 2025   |  Updated:  18:29 EDT, 4 June 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rory_mcilroy\/index.html\" id=\"mol-d4adb240-418e-11f0-bf0c-a5d3c5800599\" rel=\"noopener\">Rory McIlroy<\/a> has admitted to struggling for motivation since his legacy-defining win at <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/masters_tournament\/index.html\" id=\"mol-d4b09870-418e-11f0-bf0c-a5d3c5800599\" rel=\"noopener\">the Masters<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Having finally completed the full set of major titles at Augusta, the world No 2 finished a disappointing 47th at the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/pga_championship\/index.html\" id=\"mol-d4b07160-418e-11f0-bf0c-a5d3c5800599\" class=\"class\" rel=\"noopener\">PGA Championship<\/a> last month and has now spoken about the come-down from his career high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Speaking at the Canadian Open, where he is defending his title ahead of next week\u2019s US Open, McIlroy said: \u2018The last few weeks I&#8217;ve had a couple weeks off, and grinding on the range for three or four hours every day is maybe a little tougher than it used to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018You have this event in your life that you&#8217;ve worked towards and it happens, sometimes it&#8217;s hard to find the motivation to get back on the horse and go again.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The five-time major winner added: \u2018I think the last two weeks have been good for me just as a reset, just to sort of figure out where I&#8217;m at in my own head, what I want to do, where I want to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018I thought it was a good time to reset some goals. I&#8217;ve had a pretty good first half of the season, and I want to have a good second half of the season now, too.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8d198810dcc2bd3e\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99054389-14781683-image-a-46_1749074687608.jpg\" height=\"441\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy has admitted he is struggling for motivation following his Masters triumph\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Rory McIlroy has admitted he is struggling for motivation following his Masters triumph<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-ebd9f9164cc30f52\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99054405-14781683-image-a-45_1749074621918.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"McIlroy revealed he has had a 'reset' after competing the full set of major titles in April\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">McIlroy revealed he has had a &#8216;reset&#8217; after competing the full set of major titles in April<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Rory McIlroy admits struggling for motivation after legacy-defining Masters success as he reveals &#8216;reset&#8217; ahead of US Open<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy revealed he has had a reset as he sets new goals for the future\u00a0 McIlroy completed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[92,2826,4287,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-159849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-rory-mcilroy","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114630045468733075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}