McIlroy aiming to 'flip the script' at FedEx Cup

Rory McIlroy believes nan FedEx Cup is an opportunity to "change nan narrative" astir his season.

The 35-year-old from Northern Ireland has won nan PGA Tour's season-ending title connected 3 erstwhile occasions, astir precocious successful 2022.

However hen teeing disconnected connected Thursday astatine nan FedEx St. Jude Championship, nan first of this year's 3 playoff events, nan world number 3 will beryllium almost 3,500 points down leader and caller Olympic champion Scottie Scheffler.

The American world number 1 besides won his 2nd Masters this season, while golf's biggest prizes proceed to elude McIlroy.

"I deliberation erstwhile nan bulk of nan play has travel and gone and you've sewage this opportunity of 3 weeks to really flip nan book a small spot aliases alteration nan communicative and what that play means, I deliberation that's a motivating factor, and portion of nan logic that I've astir apt played good successful nan playoffs for nan past 3 years," he said.

McIlroy has won 3 times successful 2024 but, pinch his awesome drought now having stretched beyond a decade, his twelvemonth will beryllium champion remembered for losing retired to Bryson DeChambeau complete nan last holes of nan US Open astatine Pinehurst successful June.

"I surely don't want to beryllium up present and belittle my achievements astatine each this twelvemonth and what I've done, but astatine nan aforesaid time, I expect a definite modular from myself," said McIlroy.

"I've won a mates of times, but I've had an opportunity to triumph a fewer much times than that and haven't been capable to get complete nan line.

"I would person liked to person added a mates much to that triumph column. But there's still 3 tournaments near successful this PGA Tour season."

After his necktie for 5th spot astatine nan Olympics successful Paris 2 weeks ago, McIlroy said he felt for illustration nan "nearly man" of nan athletics and, contempt describing himself arsenic "reasonably happy" pinch nan measurement he has played crossed nan year, nan four-time awesome victor admitted he is still searching for a solution erstwhile it comes winning connected nan biggest stage.

"I consciousness for illustration this twelvemonth and possibly nan past mates years, I've conscionable recovered a measurement to deed nan incorrect changeable astatine nan incorrect time," he added.

"That mightiness spell into mentation and trying to believe a small much nether unit astatine home. I mean, you spell done these things successful golf, and you spell done these small challenges, and you conscionable person to effort to fig retired a measurement to get done it, and my situation correct now is that.

"It's really bully but not rather bully capable to benignant of return location nan silverware. It's conscionable thing I'm having to activity through."

The apical 70 players successful nan FedEx Cup standings aft nan regular play qualified to beryllium successful Memphis this week pinch McIlroy teeing disconnected alongside Collin Morikawa astatine 15:45 BST.

The apical 50 aft this week’s tourney beforehand to nan BMW Championship earlier nan apical 30 advancement to nan concluding Tour Championship astatine East Lake GC.