He was not angry with his performance, just disappointed.

LESS than a week before Rory McIlroy possibly writes his name into golfing immortality, the world No. 1 confesses he is no longer in love with the game.

Rory McIlroy has been named the RTÉ Sports Person of the Year 2014. The Holywood golfer took the top prize at last night’s award ceremony.

It will be back to work for Open champion Rory McIlroy this week as he gets on with the business of being a multiple Major winner.

Rory McIlroy will have to find another day to fret over after his Friday at the Open proved far from freaky at Royal Liverpool.

The embrace with his father was long and meaningful as Rory McIlroy completed the most remarkable of weeks, even by his standards, to win the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth yesterday.

Look, I think I’m no different than anyone else.

Rory McIlroy’s PGA Tour season might have been a nightmare almost from start to finish but there is much for the talented Holywood star to glean from the last two months of his competitive year.

As far as we know, the great French writer Marcel Proust did not play golf but he would have been intrigued by Graeme McDowell’s responses to his famous Questionnaire.

But Pádraig Harrington and Paul McGinley believe the world No. 2 may have to accept his infuriating inconsistency as part of his golfing DNA and embrace his “erratic genius” as he seeks a confidence -boosting return to form in the Irish Open at Carton House this week.

Rory McIlroy isn’t a ham-fisted heavyweight looking to knock seven bells out of Merion with an adrenaline-fuelled attack.

Rory McIlory overcame a nightmare start to his second round to put himself back on track for a big push for Masters glory this weekend as Tiger Woods was making his charge up the leaderboard at Augusta National.

When you’re 23, top of the world, have a Major in your back pocket and €10.5m in prize money this season it’s fair to say you’re hot property.

With four years until Rio he didn’t have to make the call

Ireland slipped to a second consecutive defeat in the Women’s Home Internationals at Cork Golf Club yesterday, going down 6-3 to Wales.

It wasn’t all doom and gloom for Holywood tyros yesterday.

If Rory McIlroy could bottle Pádraig Harrington’s, well, bottle, then his quest to be golf’s greatest could well be on the fast track.

Shane Lowry continued to display his fondness for the Blackstone course on day two of the Ballantine’s Championship in Seoul.

Rory McIlroy is glad to be back at Augusta National, believing he is a better player than 12 months ago, and wiser too than the kid who threw away the chance to win a Masters.

Rory McIlroy was on top of the world last night when he held off a dramatic final round charge from Tiger Woods to become Ireland’s first number one.

Rory McIlroy’s relentlessmission to become thenumber one golfer in the world continues this week at the Honda Classic at PGA National, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

What could have been the day he became world number one at just 22 turned from sweet to sour for Rory McIlroy in Tucson last night.

What could have been the day he became world number one at just 22 turned from sweet to sour for Rory McIlroy in Tucson tonight.

Leona Maguire stepped up the defence of her Portugese Ladies Open Amateur title in difficult conditions in Lisbon yesterday.

AFTER his prayers weren’t heard on the final spin round Amen Corner last April, Rory McIlroy gained the admiration of the sporting world for his sanguine, mature reaction to the enveloping disappointment.

NEGOTIATIONS about the future of the 2012 Irish Open are ongoing with a June 28 to July 1 date favourite to get the green light according to sources close to the European Tour.

RORY McILROY’S bid for a second Major title effectively ended the moment he picked his seven iron out of the bag and took aim at a tree root on Thursday.

IT really doesn’t get much better than this.

GARY PLAYER last night admitted that Rory McIlroy is the most talented golfer he has seen.

UNFULFILLED potential is unforgivable in American sport.

RORY McILROY is set tobecome one of the highest paidsportsmen on the planet after his US Open victory.

Among the many spin-offs from Rory McIlroy’s amazing US Open victory is a five-year exemption onto the PGA Tour in America.

The American press have lauded Rory McIlroy following his emphatic US Open success at Congressional.

WHEN Pádraig Harrington added the 2008 US PGA Championship to the British Opens of ‘07 and ‘08 many felt a wonderful era for Irish golf had reached its zenith.

IT MAY have come a little later than expected butwhen Rory McIlroy’s maiden major victory came in the US Open at Congressional Country Club last night it was all the sweeter for the deep disappointment of 10 weeks ago.

IT IS something of a cliche when a young athlete bursts on the scene that his or her potential had been obvious from the start, but unless you’re a two-year-old Tiger Woods filmed putting with Bob Hope for US network television, very few can attest to the veracity of the testimonials.

WITH each remarkable stroke, with each record-setting performance, Ireland’s Rory McIlroy marched into golf history last night.

THE time has arrived for Rory McIlroy to see if he can hit straight back from the most crushing disappointment of his young golfing life in the majors.

RORY McILROY’s bid to move on from his Masters disappointment continued at Wentworth yesterday as he spent more time with short-game expert Dave Stockton ahead of today’s BMW PGA Championship opening round.

TIGER WOODS has yet to say whether he will be fit enough for the Players Championship next week but Rory McIlroy has confirmed he will not be taking part in golf’s richest event.

RORY McILROY’S home club, Holywood, believes intense pressure on young shoulders led to his Augusta Masters collapse — but he will win a major some day.