'The game is testing me' - McIlroy on play-off agony

Rory McIlroy remained affirmative contempt a play-off conclusion successful nan BMW PGA Championship condemning him to his latest adjacent miss successful 2024.

The world number 3 was beaten connected nan 2nd play-off spread by American Billy Horschel astatine Wentworth connected Sunday.

McIlroy narrowly missed retired connected winning nan US Open successful June and fto a lead gaffe again successful nan last information to decorativeness 2nd successful past weekend's Irish Open astatine Royal County Down aft going adjacent to an eagle connected nan last spread to unit a play-off.

"Last week was a reliable 1 but I near location pinch my caput held precocious pinch nan measurement I played nan past spread trying to make three," said nan four-time awesome victor from Northern Ireland.

"Two weeks successful a statement I've played well. Just not rather good enough. The crippled is testing maine a small much than it has done successful nan past, but that's fine."

McIlroy and Horschel vanished connected 20 nether on pinch South Africa's Thriston Lawrence, who was eliminated astatine nan first play-off hole.

Horschel past won nan tourney for nan 2nd clip successful 4 years pinch an eagle astatine nan par-five 18th.

"If personification had of said you're going to move up astatine Wentworth this week and sprout 20 nether par, I'd return that - each I tin do is support showing up and trying to play nan play that I've been playing and sooner aliases later it's going to extremity up successful a win," added McIlroy.

"And coming I played nan play-off holes perfectly, really, a mates of birdies. But it conscionable shows nan modular retired here. If you gaffe up conscionable a small spot aliases don't make a birdie connected a important hole, personification is ever waiting to return advantage of that."

McIlroy's attraction is firmly connected nan early arsenic he takes an optimistic attack aft a bid of disappointments.

"It could person been a different twelvemonth but nan bully point is there's adjacent twelvemonth and nan twelvemonth aft and nan twelvemonth aft and nan twelvemonth after.

"If you deliberation of my profession arsenic a 30-year journey, it's only 1 twelvemonth successful a 30-year journey, and hopefully nan different 29 are a small much productive aliases a small spot better."