A day after a stunning and potentially career-defining collapse at the U.S. Open at Pinehurst, Rory McIlroy has spoken.
The four-time major winner who came excruciatingly close to his fifth issued a statement on Monday addressing his collapse and congratulating winner and rival Bryson DeChambeau. It's the first the public has heard from McIlroy since Sunday's finish that saw DeChambeau get up and down from a bunker on 18 to defeat McIlroy by one stroke.
McIlroy was last seen via NBC cameras watching in anguish as DeChambeau capitalized on McIlroy's back-nine blunders en route to victory.