PINEHURST, N.C. — Where does Rory McIlroy go from here? Where do you even start to pick up the pieces of a shattered dream?
Does he comfort himself with the fact that, yet again, he was in the mix for a major right until the final holes?
Does he consider that he’s lost three majors in the last two years — the 2022 Open Championship, the 2023 U.S. Open and this — by a total of four strokes?
Does he collapse? Implode? Plod his way through the rest of his career wondering how six feet worth of putts on Sunday night could have changed his life?