Rory McIlroy Has ZERO Regrets About Skipping FedEx Playoff 😮

Rory McIlroy says he has no regrets about missing last week’s FedEx Cup Playoff event — and he’s revealed exactly why.

In this video, we break down Rory’s comments, the reasoning behind his decision, and whether it could impact his chances in the remainder of the FedEx Cup season.

🏌️‍♂️ In This Video:

Why Rory skipped the playoff

His mindset heading into the next events

Potential FedEx Cup implications

Fan and media reaction

With the PGA Tour season heating up, Rory’s call to sit out has everyone talking — but he’s standing firm on his choice.

You are a three-time seasonl long FedEx Cup champion. Uh, are you the seasonl long champion if you win next week or or is whoever wins next week, can you consider that a seasonl long champion when you just get to East Lake and win one tournament? I mean, I who knows at this point. Um, that’s why I asked you. I I don’t know. I think it’s it’s hard, you know. It’s like Yeah. every other sport has or every other American sport has has playoffs and you know they sort of try to make a big deal of the um the end of the season. Um and I think it’s hard and got you know I come you know look I come from a place where like the Premier League Liverpool won won the the Premier League last year with five games to to spare. You know that’s sometimes what happens in sports. Sometimes you have you have guys or you have a team that that is just that much better than everyone else that that season and they are the they are the deserving winner. So um you know I think from a player perspective it seems like the consensus was that um people didn’t like the starting stroke. So to to get rid of that is um a good thing. But I I I now think that the tour championship um not being starting strokes is, you know, it’s sort of its own it’s its own thing now. you know, you obviously you win the tour championship, which then means you win the FedEx Cup, but um I don’t necessarily think that means that you’re the seasonl long winner, you know, unless Scotty Sheffler wins it and he is the season long winner, but he, you know, but you know, like every like everyone knows Scotty Sheffller is, you know, the you know, he’s won two majors this year. You know, he you know, he’s you know, head and shoulders above the rest in terms of the points going into this week. he’ll be ahead of everyone going in, you know, in the points going into next week. So, he’s he’s deservedly got his bonus all the way through. Um, and then everything resets and, you know, it’s sort of Yeah, I guess I I see it as more of a one-off event rather than the culmination of the entire season. Doug, can you hand that to Bob and we’ll go over here to Adam, please. Rory, in this they’re calling this kind of a bridge year with the tour championship. Is there something that you would like to see change to make it even more compelling for the future? Um, yeah. I mean, I don’t I you know, there’s obviously been a lot of discourse about should these playoffs be mandatory or not or, you know, obviously I didn’t play last week and is that something that they need to look at? Um, you know, it could be something where, you know, and I’ve heard this idea kicked around where, you know, everything resets after Windham and then the top 70 just play for the top 50 spots to get into the next week and then everything resets again here and then the top 30 from this week then make it to the tour championship. I mean, if if you want to try to to make it straight playoffs and elimination, I think that would be a a good way to go. But, um, you’re trying to balance a lot of different things. You’re trying to balance the the the competitive integrity of of what the playoffs are, but you’re also trying to keep the meteorites partners happy. You’re trying to keep the sponsors happy. You know, they’re the people that are paying the big bucks to expect the, you know, the big names to be playing in their golf tournaments. And, you know, that’s a that’s a delicate balance. If if you had uh if you had gone from being number two back to the very end at 50 for not having played last week, would you have would you have still skipped? Yeah, I’m I’m playing nine times between now and the end of the year. So I I think by the time October, November comes around, I’m I’m going to be glad of that extra week off. Yeah. Okay. And as you try to figure out kind of new goals, I’m curious, is being a Rder Cup playing captain that you aspire to. Is that is that something No, I’ve I’ve been asked to do that and I’ve turned it down. You’ve already been asked to be the captain. No, I’ve been I’ve you know the the I’ve the idea of me being a playing captain sometime soon coming up has come up and I’ve shot it down straight away. Yeah. Why? Cuz I don’t think you can do it. We go to Bob and then over this side. Hey. Hey Rory. Um, you I I don’t know if you publicly said it or maybe you did in an interview a long time ago, you sort of telegraphed that you weren’t going to play last week, so it wasn’t maybe a big surprise, but obviously there was some reaction to it. Um, wouldn’t you think though, or do you think that maybe you’re a little bit the outlier? you just mentioned that um you’ve got a big schedule coming up uh you know where most of the guys don’t uh you know especially the American guys are they’re kind of done after next week except for the RDER Cup. Uh so I’m just curious if you think you’re you’re maybe the outlier. Guys aren’t typically skipping $20 million tournaments. No, I’m you know a lot of the guys aren’t 18 years into their professional career either. you know, you know, it’s I I I feel like I’m in a little bit of a different position than than than some of the guys. And um yeah, you know, as I said, I’m playing nine times between now and the end of the year. So, I’ve still got a pretty busy stretch coming up. And um you know, I just think that extra week off um you know, will will do me good, you know, with with the events coming up and you know, some big events that are important to me. Irish Open Wentworth obviously the RDER Cup you know I want to try to win my seventh race to Dubai over in Europe as well and um you know there’s some things that are still important to me that I want to go play in and um you know that that was a you know big part of the reason why I you know I wanted to take that extra week off last week. Okay left down here right here. Yeah. And then just a little bit of a change of pace here as you as you end off. Obviously you’ve made a lot of money in your career. Do you remember what you spent your first tour paycheck on? Yes. A watch. A watch with diamonds around it. It was horrific. I can’t believe it. It was like It’s like the worst purchase ever. It was so bad. Do you remember like the make model? I do. It’s not the It’s not the make a model that I’m sponsored by now, so I’m not going to I’m not going to say it. Oh, good. Thank you so much. You’re welcome. All right. Thanks everybody. Rory, appreciate it. Have a great week. Thank you.