Rory McIlroy will head into the US PGA Championship brimming with confidence after winning The Masters last month but he came up short in the final round of the Truist Championship

Rory McIlroy was only a few feet away from being hit by a golf ball during the early stages of his final round at the Truist Championship. The fans gathered around McIlroy's shot from the rough all ducked in unison when the 'fore' shout came, and although the stray ball bounced up and hit a policeman, everybody escaped unscathed.

The 2025 Truist Championship, being played at Philadelphia Cricket Club's Wissahickon Course in Pennsylvania this week, has 54 holes in the books with Sunday's final round still to come. After this one-time visit to Philly,

McIlroy didn’t hold back in a press conference this Saturday, admitting that stepping away from PGA Tour politics has cleared his head. “I’m certainly not involved too much in the politics of everything,