{"id":1008575,"date":"2026-08-18T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1008575\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:16:24","slug":"rory-mcilroy-feels-lost-after-dreadful-fedex-cup-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1008575\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy feels &#8216;lost&#8217; after dreadful FedEx Cup showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy said he feels \u201cfar away from where I need to be\u201d after a 2-over 72 saw him finish 66th out of 68 at the FedEx St. Jude Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The world No. 2 acknowledged his swing was off and explained that he felt \u201clost\u201d as the tournament progressed at TPC Southwind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously didn\u2019t come in here with a ton of reps,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/article\/news\/latest\/2026\/08\/16\/rory-mcilroy-sider-fedex-st-jude-championship-tpc-southwind-round-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said McIlroy,<\/a> who hadn\u2019t played since last month\u2019s Open Championship and failed to break par in any of his four rounds on the par-70 layout. \u201c[It] almost felt like the more the week went on, the more I felt lost with my golf swing a little bit.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40381429\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rory-mcilroy-northern-ireland-plays-137423229.jpg\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland plays his shot from the seventh tee during the second round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind on Friday, August 14, 2026, in Memphis, Tennessee. \" class=\"wp-image-40381429\"  \/>Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland plays his shot from the seventh tee during the second round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind on Friday, August 14, 2026, in Memphis, Tennessee.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe swing wasn\u2019t in sync and obviously I didn\u2019t do a ton of practice coming in here. I\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>McIlroy will compete in this week\u2019s BMW Championship, the second event of the FedEx Cup playoffs, at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old pro \u2014 who won The Masters in 2025 and \u201926 \u2014 is assured for the 30-man season-ending Tour Championship later this month at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Ga., where he will look to secure a fourth FedEx Cup title and his first since 2022.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40381434\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rory-mcilroy-northern-ireland-hits-137507141.jpg\" alt=\"Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, hits from the 10th fairway during the third round of the St. Jude Championship golf tournament on Saturday, August 15, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn.  \" class=\"wp-image-40381434\"  \/>Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, hits from the 10th fairway during the third round of the St. Jude Championship golf tournament on Saturday, August 15, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn.   AP Photo\/George Walker IV<\/p>\n<p>\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.<\/p>\n<p>\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 [at Bellerive].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/16\/sports\/scottie-scheffler-runs-away-with-fedex-st-jude-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> recorded an eight-shot victory<\/a> to win the FedEx St. Jude Championship, his first event since January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy said he feels \u201cfar away from where I need to be\u201d after a 2-over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1008576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[47],"tags":[37282,1430,1478,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1008575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-fedex-cup","tag-golf","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}