SHEBOYGAN, Wis. – Rory McIlroy had a make-or-break trial run last week in Portugal.
Seventy-two holes. Four days. No cart.
“That was basically my fitness test,” he said.
McIlroy reported no pain, no swelling and no issues with his rehabbed ankle, which he had injured July 4 in a friendly soccer game.
There was some debate within his team that McIlroy could have undergone that “fitness” test at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, where he was the defending champion.
“But doing that in front of guys in the media, the eyes of the world, it probably wasn’t a great idea,” he said.