A return to his old putter paid instant dividends for world number one Rory McIlroy as he set the pace in the WGC-Mexico Championship.

The No.1 golfer in the world delivered a major blow to the proposed Premier Golf League, with Rory McIlroy declaring an emphatic “I’m out” regarding his interest in participating in the potential breakaway world league.

McIlroy began the day tied for the lead

McIlroy and Brooks Koepka did not contest last week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, but McIlroy moved above the American due to the vagaries of the two-year rolling ranking system.

His failure to win at home last summer provided Rory McIlroy with a liberating epiphany.

After winning four times in 2019 and racking up 19 top-10 finishes from 25 starts to win the PGA Tour Player of the Year award, it’s been a memorable season for Rory McIlroy.

Revenues at superstar golfer, Rory McIlroy’s management and image rights firm last year soared almost three fold to $17.64m (€16m).

Rory McIlroy’s new trophy cabinet could soon need expanding after arguably his best shot of a stellar season capped a superb opening round in the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.

The Northern Irishman won a play-off after finishing tied on 19 under at the Sheshan International Golf Club.

McIlroy closed day two one shot behind Matthew Fitzpatrick but capitalised as the Englishman slipped from the top of the leaderboard on Saturday

World number one Brooks Koepka has dismissed the idea he has a rivalry with Rory McIlroy — by reminding the world that McIlroy hasn’t won a major in five years.

Rory McIlroy has just about made the cut at the BMW PGA Championship.

Rory McIlroy has been voted the PGA Tour player of the year.

In the wake of his $15m season-ending success at East Lake on Sunday, Rory McIlroy sat down with the assembled media. Here's a truncated transcript

Rory McIlroy has questioned both the radical new format and the focus on the $15m (€13.5m) first prize at this week’s season-ending Tour Championship.

Rory McIlroy has called for slow players to receive a solitary warning before receiving shot penalties.

Rory McIlroy fears legalising conventional gambling in the US may increase the number of fan heckling from outside the ropes at Tour events.

Rory McIlroy’s major successes are far from over, says Graeme McDowell, who has backed his friend to rebound from his Royal Portrush disappointment.

Shane Lowry survived alate-round wobble and some high-volume commentary from a giant TV screen to put himself in pole position at the halfway stage of The 148th Open as Rory McIlroy’s late charge to the make the cut came up agonisingly short.

A pre-Open Championship pep talk from coach Neil Manchip propelled a previously uneasy Lowrytowards his lowest opening round in a major and the business end of the leaderboard on a rollercoaster first day at Royal Portrush. But what would Rory McIlroy have given for Lowry’s 67 at The 148th Open?

As someone who has witnessed the insane levels of attention he draws at home tournaments, Rory’s performance yesterday didn’t really surprise me as I have often seen him struggle to cope with that huge expectation.

Pinch yourself. Major championship golf really is here.

Tournament host Paul McGinley has insisted this week’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open can flourish in spite of the absence of leading Irishman Rory McIlroy.

Rory McIlroy has little interest in following Jason Day’s example and teaming up with a so-called superstar caddie.

Rory McIlroy insists he cannot let the pressure of winning at home get to him when he seeks a dream end to his five-year Major drought in the Open at Royal Portrush.

The skies above Pebble Beach Golf Links for most of Thursday’s first round were gray, but the leaderboard featured a different hue, one players aren’t typically accustomed to seeing at the U.S. Open: Red.

The list sees 35 NBA players, 19 from the NFL and 15 from Major League Baseball

In-form Rory McIlroy leads the Irish charge at Pebble Beach this week after his sensational performance saw him win the Canadian Open last week.

Watching Rory McIlroy decimate course and field at the Canadian Open for his 16th Tour win left many golf watchers of a mind with the US golf writer who quizzed him Sunday in Hamilton on the apparent inconsistency in his game. Missed cut at the Memorial one week, Sunday stroll in Canada the next?

Shane Lowry finished tied for second in the last tournament before the US Open

Rory McIlroy moved into a three-way tie for the lead after a sparkling third round at the RBC Canadian Open.

The tournament has been beset by problems in recent years and tournament organisers, the USGA admitted they went “too far” with the set up of Shinnecock Hills last year after only three players broke par in the third round.

After his disappointing finish at Augusta National, Rory McIlroy couldn't help reliving the disappointment.

Rory McIlroy fired a five-under-par round of 66 to move into contention for a third career victory at the Wells Fargo International in Charlotte.

The giant live oak tree outside the Augusta National Golf Club clubhouse has to be the greatest hangout in all of golf.

Augusta can be heaven when the putts are dropping and the roars are reverberating through the pines.

Could Tiger really win a fifth Masters Green Jacket?

By the time Rory McIlroy arrived at the first tee on Thursday to begin pursuit of his elusive first green jacket, he already had spent a week trying to crack the code at Augusta National.

When Rory McIlroy took the unpopular decision late last year to participate exclusively on the PGA Tour this season, he endured plenty of criticism from this side of the Atlantic.

Two weeks to go and the Masters hype is building nicely, writes Kevin Markham.

Rory McIlroy has made an impressive start to the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in Texas today.

Rory McIlroy was the last man on the range on Saturday night. He said he went there to correct a timing issue.

Rory McIlroy will have to do something only Tiger Woods has achieved if he is to become the sixth player to complete a career grand slam at next month’s Masters.