Rory McIlroy Opens Up on PGA Championship, Injury, Jordan Spieth and More

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Published: August 11, 2015

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Rory McIlroy says his ankle is stronger than ever ahead of the 2015 PGA Championship, which begins on Thursday.

Though he was absent from the British Open at St Andrews last month because of the ankle injury, the world No. 1 has made a speedy recovery, and he is raring to go as he looks to defend his 2014 title at Whistling Straits.

McIlroy will be joined on Thursday and Friday by world No. 2 Jordan Spieth—the 2015 Masters and U.S. Open winner—and the four-time major champion will be looking to reassert his standing as the best golfer on the planet.

The Northern Irishman has been practicing hard on the championship course in preparation. He has put to bed any doubts about his fitness and opened up about his forced hiatus, which has seen him out of competitive action since June's U.S. Open, per Derek Lawrenson in the Daily Mail:

If anything, my ankle feels even better when I swing hard at the ball. I didn’t miss it [the Open at St Andrews] as much as you probably think. Yes, of course, it would have been lovely to be there. But you go to the gym each morning and you see people going about their daily lives and it does give you a sense of perspective. You realise it’s a long way from being the end of the world. [...]

I took seven weeks off at the end of last year and came back and finished second in Abu Dhabi but this is obviously a world of difference. It’s one thing coming back at a regular event in the Middle East but here it’s a major and I’m the defending champion.

McIlroy won the third and fourth majors of 2014 in a blistering end to the season. However, 2015 has all been about Spieth and his pursuit of the Grand Slam, which was ended by Zach Johnson at St Andrews—the Texan finished in a tie for fourth.



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