Rory McIlroy cut short his PGA Championship practice round at Aronimink on Tuesday, amid ongoing worries about a blister. McIlroy completed the career grand slam in 2025 and secured consecutive green jackets in 2026, and now faces World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and numerous other elite players at Aronimink.
However, his chances of competing have been somewhat hampered by a troublesome blister. The 37-year-old stopped his practice round on Tuesday, removed his shoe and examined his right foot.
This follows McIlroy limping at the Truist Championship because of a blister on his toe. He said at the tournament: “Yeah, I’ve got a blister on my pinky toe on my right foot.
“But it’s underneath my nail. So I can’t really get to it or so it’s a little sore, but I’ll be all right. Started to feel it like Friday afternoon.”
McIlroy insisted the blister is no justification for subpar performances in the coming weeks following a five-under showing at the Truist Championship. He explained: “No, not at all. No, that was – I wish that was an excuse, but absolutely not (laughing). No, it’s fine. I’ll be okay.”
The Holywood-born star also revealed he’ll have several things to address before the second major of the campaign. He said: “I think the range session last night was good,” McIlroy said.
“Figured out a couple of things. As I said, I feel like I got into a couple of bad habits just because of that left-to-right wind on the range all week. So straighten that out.
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“I’m going to go home tonight, which will be nice, spend a night in my own bed and practice at home tomorrow. Try to get a, you know, just sort of continue that feel and bring that up to Philadelphia for the rest of the week.”
McIlroy had already paid a visit to Aronimink recently and jokingly claimed he ‘lived’ there following the flak he received over his Masters preparation.
“I lived there for a week,” said McIlroy, laughing, adding: “Just played it every day. No, I went up and back in the same day. It was good to get — we played the BMW there in 2018, but the course played a lot differently.
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“It was wet in 2018 and the greens didn’t play as fast or as severe as what I felt like they played last week when I played. So it’s not a long golf course, but the big defence is the greens and they can tuck the pins away if they want to.
“But yeah it was nice to get an early look at it. It just means that the week of the tournament you’re not under pressure to play a lot of holes and historically the practice rounds at the PGA can be excruciatingly long, so it’s probably going to just be nine holes Tuesday, nine holes Wednesday.”