Rory McIlroy ready for US Open: 'If we can’t hit it within that avenue, you might as well pack your bags and go home'

Compared to Sergio Garcia’s 73-major wait for his maiden win, Rory McIlroy’s nine-major dry streak is but the blink of an eye. 

Still, the world No 2 is now beginning to wonder what he needs to do to capture that fifth Grand Slam title and if he was looking for an end to the dark days, he only had to look up at the black Wisconsin sky.

“I wasn’t crying when I saw that rain last night and this morning,” he told a packed press conference at an Erin Hills course sodden by two heavy rain storms in the space of 10 hourse. “It’s a long golf course and it’s only going to play longer. That benefits a few guys, and luckily I’m one of them.”