Rory McIlroy’s wife had to drag him out of the house after Masters disaster, but he’s back ahead of Wells Fargo Championship
After a week in hiding following his fade out at Augusta, the Northern Irishman says his game is in good shape
After driving off Magnolia Lane following his disappointing finish in the Masters, Rory McIlroy basically went into hiding for seven days.
Upon his return home, he binge-watched a couple of shows, including Billions, got lost in a couple of psychology books – The Chimp Paradox and Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – and did everything he could to keep his mind from wandering back to Augusta National and the Masters.
It was there the four-time major winner’s chance to complete the career grand slam crumbled with a final-round 74 that left him in a tie for fifth.
His decompressing got to the point that he needed to see some daylight and his wife Erica “had to drag me out of the house and say ‘OK, we’re going to go do something’. I said ‘OK’ and once I got back in my sort of routine, I was fine,” McIlroy said ahead of this week’s Wells Fargo Championship, which he won in 2010 and 2015.
A month ago, everything looked fine as McIlroy was in prime position to win the green jacket. He started the final round in the final group, three shots behind eventual winner Patrick Reed, and he was coming off a sizzling 65 in the third round.
But then he missed a five-footer for eagle on the second and a 10-footer for par on the third and his victory march quickly came to a halt.