Rory McIlroy expects 'different' New York reception as US Open returns to Shinnecock

After a run of near misses, McIlroy believes patience can help deliver a first US Open title since 2011

The last time the US Open was at Shinnecock Hills in 2018, Rory McIlroy missed the cut. Pic: Warren Little/Getty Images

Rory McIlroy’s last official visit to Long Island was filled with tears of joy and pain, a victorious European Ryder Cup triumph interrupted at times by boisterous and overbearing spectators at Bethpage.

That was in September, at a venue some 60 miles and more than an hour away from the toney Hamptons, where Shinnecock Hills Golf Club sits among some of America’s finest golf courses amid luxurious vacation homes just a short distance from the Atlantic Ocean.