Rory McIlroy goes back to first love, where back-to-back majors feels fated

15 years ago, at Quail Hollow, where this week's PGA Championship takes place, Rory McIlroy won his first PGA Tour event. 

At Quail Hollow in 2010, a 20-year-old Rory McIlroy barely made the cut before going on a hot streak to claim his first tour win. Pic: Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

Can a time warp also be timeless? With Nick Faldo on the microphone all things are possible.

Roll the video and Rory McIlroy is so clearly a previous incarnation of himself. The threads: a brown, baby blue and green striped polo doesn’t strike our 2025 eyes as 2010 chic but something your oul fella would’ve worn to mow the lawn back then. It’s matched with a pair of blinding white pants that billow around McIlroy’s 20-year-old thighs and calves, yet to be bulked. Saturday night fever meets Sunday afternoon starboy.