McIlroy heads to Pebble pumped and primed

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?

“I think that’s the thing that people don’t quite understand with golf at this level,” mused McIlroy after a final-round 61 that could even have been a couple of shots better.