Rory McIlroy: 'You can't keep all the plates spinning, something had to give'

The golfing superstar agrees that right now, he is the happiest he's been in a long time. His exit from involvement in golf's political side has played a major part in that

RORY STORY: Rory McIlroy will have a DP World Tour award named after him - but he can't win it himself. Pic: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Rory McIlroy's initial instinct when approached about having a DP World Tour award named after him was that it was "a bit soon". It was announced on Tuesday that the tour's best performing member across the four majors will receive the Rory McIlroy Award. The man himself will be ineligible to win it.

"The more I thought about it, I'm not going to be around forever playing," said McIlroy.