Rory McIlroy won his second PLAYERS in six years with an impressive display of controlled shots, course management and scrambling around TPC Sawgrass. There's a few keys golfers can take away from ...

With the winds gusting during both Sunday at the Players Championship and in the rain-delayed Monday playoff, Rory McIlroy hit ... use it with like 9-iron, 8-iron, 7-iron down.

McIlroy delivered an early knockout against J.J. Spaun with his best drive of the week that set up a simple birdie, followed by a three-quarter 9-iron into a cold, cackling wind that found land on the ...

Rory McIlroy is no stranger to entering ... At the 17th, Rory flighted a 9-iron down into the wind with a three-quarter swing and found the back tier of the island green as Spaun launched an ...

(AP) — Rory McIlroy ... he went down with a 77 that effectively took him out of the tournament. Now he has a shorter swing for the occasion, once for his wedge and now down to the 7-iron.

The world No 2 saw a three-shot lead slip away in a tight late finish to Sunday’s action, setting up a dramatic play-off for the title ...

Rory McIlroy needed ... “To step up and make that swing was awesome.” And then it effectively ended on the 17th. “When my ball was in the air, I was telling it to get down,” McIlroy said. Spaun hit ...

Rory McIlroy ... make that swing was awesome." And then it effectively ended on the 17th. "When my ball was in the air, I was telling it to get down," McIlroy said. Spaun hit his 8-iron with ...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The playoff was only three holes. Rory McIlroy needed only three swings. And yet his victory Monday over J.J. Spaun in The Players Championship revealed so much about ...

He set the tone with his best of the week, a 336-yard blast right down the middle that set up a pitching wedge from 176 yards into the par-5 16th for a two-putt birdie from 35 feet.