Rory McIlroy knew that one thing needed to change.
He nonetheless had the expertise to be essentially the most dominating golfer on the planet.
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And McIlroy had already gained three of golf’s main tournaments, together with two PGA Championship trophies.
However a lingering ‘Masters Curse’ had been highlighted by McIlroy’s surreal final-round breakdown on the 2024 US Open.
So the 35-year-old golfer from Northern Eire did what anybody with greater than $160 million in profession earnings would do.
McIlroy mixed the filming of Adam Sandler’s Joyful Gilmore 2 with a secret mission to privately repair his swing in a locked room.
“I bought to spend just a little little bit of time with Rory within the offseason,” Chad Mumm, govt producer of Netflix’s Full Swing, completely informed talkSPORT.
“And it was attention-grabbing, as a result of he was in the midst of a reasonably rigorous transforming of his swing.”
Based on Mumm, McIlroy embraced the darkness and emerged with renewed private confidence.
The No. 2-ranked golfer on the planet has already gained the Gamers Championship and AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am this season.
He additionally overcame a fourth-round slide at TPC Sawgrass to personal a playoff, and enters this week’s Texas Kids’s Houston Open as the most popular golfer on the circuit.
“He is out for blood,” Mumm stated.
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Lastly profitable Augusta in April is one factor.
McIlroy additionally spent his busy offseason specializing in enhancing his wedge and distance management.
“The month that we had been filming Joyful Gilmore in New Jersey, he was not watching his ball flight, which I assumed was actually fascinating,” stated Mumm, who’s the co-founder and president of Professional Store.
“Really, I invited him out to go play some golf on one of many off days of filming motion pictures, and a few the opposite gamers had come out.
“And he is like, ‘Look, I am rebuilding my swing. I would love to come back, however I am actually locking myself in a simulator at evening, turning the simulator off, filming my swing from behind, and simply wanting on the movement. If I see my ball flying by means of the air, I will begin going again to the previous methods.
“And so he took a month to rebuild it and he got here again and, rapidly, right here he’s … seemingly in whole management of his sport.”
McIlroy acknowledged final November in Abu Dhabi that he emphasised creating extra effectivity in a robust swing that has created 28 PGA Tour wins, 11 worldwide victories, 11 runner-up finishes, and nearly $100 million in PGA money.
“The one means I used to be going to make a change — or at the least transfer in the best route — with my swing was to lock myself in a studio,” McIlroy stated.
“It is one thing simply to make my golf swing extra environment friendly. After which whether it is extra environment friendly, then it means it isn’t going to interrupt down as a lot underneath stress.
“If I take a look at my yr, the one factor that I’d criticize myself on is the truth that I’ve had these possibilities to win.”
If Scottie Scheffler falls backward in 2025, Mumm already is aware of who is about to take his place on high of the golf world.
“Be careful. He might have a Scottie-like season this yr, and go reel off eight to 10 wins,” stated Mumm, who added that McIlroy has a ‘jacked’ physique after the offseason swing adjustments.
Joyful Gilmore 2 will see Sandler carry again essentially the most well-known Hollywood golfer of all-time with a solid that’s set to incorporate Christopher McDonald, Ben Stiller, Unhealthy Bunny, John Daly, Paige Spiranac, Scottie Scheffler, Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka.
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Getting it proper
Rory McIlroy profession PGA wins: 28
PGA Tour earnings: $99.7 million
Main wins: 4 (2011 US Open, 2012 PGA Championship, 2014 Open Championship, 2014 PGA Championship)
2025 victories: 2 (Gamers Championship, AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am)
Finest Masters end: 2nd (2022)
Masters entered: 16
The 2025 Masters might be held April 10-13 at Augusta Nationwide Golf Course.
McIlroy has entered golf’s most well-known event 16 occasions and completed in second place in 2022.
Scheffler gained August final yr with an 11-under par.
McIlroy completed tied-for-22 at 4-over.
Jim Nantz not too long ago revealed that he hopes to maintain calling the Masters till 2036, which would be the one hundredth version of the event.