At least he spoke this time. Rory McIlroy was emphatically Rory McIlroy in Canada, spinning out of the RCB Canadian Open via the missed cut guillotine, demonstrating once more how the defeats frequently match the triumphs in dimension.

There was, however, one gain in Toronto, the termination of an omerta. McIlroy had skipped media duties at the PGA Championship, later saying he was “pissed off” that news of an enforced driver change had been leaked. He insisted golfers are “well within our rights” not to speak to journalists.

The change in equipment was disruptive enough. When the news got out, it compounded an already delicate emotional picture which sent McIlroy into a tailspin of anger and frustration. Scottie Scheffler suffered the same driver fate, but none of that detail was shar

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