Resistance Rory McIlroy Opens East Lake for Us: “The Season Is Not Ended”
The 2025 PGA Tour season officially ends at the 2025 Tour Championship. While Rory McIlroy’s end at East Lake is disappointing, this year is historic for now five-time titles. But McIlroy was quick to remind reporters that the professional golf season was far from over on Sunday night.
Before leaving East Lake, McIlroy had a quick mess with reporters, interested in talking about the future than in the landscape behind, rather than his performance in his under-race FedEx Cup playoffs. The future includes busy and important competitions over the next few months.
Rory then flew to New York City, where he was found to have been spotted for hours at the age of 18 at the U.S. Open Tennis in Queens.
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History may look back at 2025 and is one of McIlroy’s best in the PGA Tour. He won two huge tour victories early this year. He won his first tour at the signature event AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
He then won the second player championship in March at TPC Sawgrass and received a $4.5 million championship check.
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Of course, McIlroy’s season will be remembered for his dramatic victory at the Masters, representing his long-awaited first win at Augusta National and his completion of a professional grand slam.
It didn’t end the way he wanted, though. After the second-place regular season, McIlroy skipped the first game of the FedEx Cup playoffs. He finished the T12 at the BMW Championship and then faltered on the Tour Championship.
But McIlroy has no interest in getting back on the season at East Lake on Sunday night, pickyly focusing on the upcoming season.
McIlroy had no bait when asked to sum up his tour season.
“Yes, this season isn’t over for me. I still have a lot of golf coming,” McIlroy said. “I refuse to call it that at the end of the season.”
McIlroy’s “important” ends until the 2025 season
He does have a lot to say about the upcoming extension, including a stop at the Irish Open at DP World Tour and the BMW PGA Championship. He tried to chase his seventh place competition Dubai victory, the season-long DP World Tour champion. McIlroy is currently behind Collin Montgomerie’s eight-time history.
“Yes, that means a lot. For me, it’s been two big weeks trying to expand my lead to Dubai,” McIlroy explained. “It’s already important to me. I’m chasing some history there. I want to put my head down and play well in those weeks.”
He continued: “To me, they’re kind of like two family games, Ireland is my national open, and then we lived a lot on the court in Wentworth.”
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Two weeks after BMW PGA, McIlroy will compete in one of the most important events of the year against anyone: the 2025 RYDER Cup at the 2025 BETHPAGE BLACK.
“The big week, trying to do a great job, but also strengthening every aspect of the game into the Ryder Cup,” he said on Sunday.
But Rory’s season is not over. After the Ryder Cup, he is expected to travel to India to compete in the DP World India Championship in October, Dubai, to compete in the DP World Tour Championship in November and to the Australian Open in December.
Rory spots tennis at the New York Open
In his main season and FedEx Cup playoffs behind him, McIlroy headed straight to New York from East Lake on Sunday night for some R&R.
And he didn’t waste time.
About three hours after his post-visit at the Tour Championship, McIlroy was found in the crowd at the U.S. Open Tennis Championship in Queens.
The TV announcer acknowledged his presence on the radio. When the camera pounced at him, they said, “Rory McIlroy. Love his tennis, it’s not bad for golf.”
McIlroy, an avid tennis fan who regularly competes in Grand Slams, is catching legend Novenk Djokovic on the grass in Flush. He took over as learner Tien (Djokovic won three sets) at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in the first round of the U.S. Open.
The defending Masters champion’s golf season resumed within two weeks from September 4-7 at the Amgen Irish Open.
