Rory McIlroy: 'I was done. I didn't want to see golf again until 2022'

'There was a lot of reflection the last couple weeks and this is what I need to do. I just need to play golf, I need to simplify it, I need to just be me'

WALK TO THE SUMMIT: McIlroy strides up the 17th at The Summit Club on Sunday.

WITH his 20th PGA Tour win on board, Rory McIlroy fessed up: He almost never got to Las Vegas for Sunday's CJ Cup win. In the depths of Ryder Cup despair, he'd all but decided to throw away the clubs until the new year.

"On the Saturday night of the Ryder Cup ... I was done with golf. I didn't want to see golf again until 2022," he told reporters. "Sunday night at the Ryder Cup I thought, 'Go to Vegas, go to CJ and try to build on this little bit of a breakthrough that I've had."