Throughout his stellar career that is far from finished but destined to include induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, Rory McIlroy, the Boy Wonder from Holywood, Northern Ireland, has dealt with his share of hard knocks.
Words he wished he could take back. Off-course adversity that tested his mettle. Slumps here and there. An ankle injury suffered while playing futbol that robbed him a chance of playing the Open Championship on golf’s most hallowed ground, the rumpled landscape of the Old Course in St. Andrews, the Home of Golf.
But one of his biggest obstacles he faced head-on began early in 2020.
