Rory McIlroy finally talked about why he wasn't talking.
The 2025 Masters winner spoke for the first time Wednesday about his failed driver test at last month's PGA Championship and defended his decision to skip speaking with reporters throughout the major tournament. McIlroy said during a pre-tournament news conference at the PGA Tour's RBC Canadian Open outside Toronto that part of his silence was due to being "pretty annoyed" only his failed driver test was leaked to the public and not also Scottie Scheffler, according to Golfweek.
Scheffler later revealed he also was ruled to have had a non-conforming driver during PGA Championship week.
“I was a little pissed off because I knew that Scottie's driver had failed on Monday, but my name was the one that was leaked. It was supposed to stay confidential. Two members of the media were the ones that leaked it," McIlroy said. "I didn't want to get up there and say something that I regretted, either, because there's a lot of people that — I'm trying to protect Scottie. I don't want to mention his name. I'm trying to protect TaylorMade. I'm trying to protect the USGA, PGA of America, myself. I just didn't want to get up there and say something that I regretted at the time. With Scottie's stuff, that's not my information to share. I knew that that had happened, but that's not on me to share that, and I felt that process is supposed to be kept confidential, and it wasn't for whatever reason. That's why I was pretty annoyed at that.”
