It’s been a little while since Rory McIlroy has won a major — eight years, to be precise.
But he’s still been really good at golf through that time. Apparently, he doesn’t think so?
Because, as SI.com’s Gary VanSickle captured earlier in the week, before McIlroy led after one round of the PGA Championship at Southern Hills, the golfer roasted himself to his daughter Poppy.
On Wednesday, he was in the media center with the one-year-old and pointed out his photo. Then? He said, “That’s when Daddy was still good.”
It turns out McIlroy is still good (but we knew that!).
Rory McIroy shows his press center mural to his daughter, says Thats when Daddy was good.” Sweet and hilarioys. @McIlroyRory pic.twitter.com/IRd8WQu7A8
— Gary VanSickle (@GaryVanSickle) May 18, 2022
Here’s the full story, via SI.com:
Rory McIlroy quietly walked into the media center late Wednesday afternoon at Southern Hills. He carried his daughter, Poppy, 1 year old, as he walked along a corridor lined by big pictures of assorted past PGA champions.
They stopped when Poppy pointed to the Collin Morikawa placard and said, “Da-da.” Rory told her, “No, that’s not Da-da, that’s Collin.” Then he pointed to the picture next to it, the one featuring Da-da making a swing in colorful purple, super-imposed on a huge, faded black-and-white photo of one of his two PGA Championships, directing Poppy’s attention to it by pointing and said, for the benefit of two writers he knew were standing behind him, “That’s when Daddy was still good.”
This story is adorable, and if McIlroy goes wire to wire, maybe it’ll serve as a funny bookend.
