Rory McIlroy, who takes over a new driver in the middle of “non-conformer” report

Charlotte, NC – he may be nine shots from the lead and cut the number, but there is still a lot of attention in Rory McIlroy in Quail Hollow.

More precisely about Rory Mcilroy’s driver.

McIlroy exchanged driver’s heads this week. His newcomer is a TaylorMade Qi10 model, just like his player, but polished; The driver Mcilroy had the wear markings on the sole in his pocket in his pocket in the Philadelphia Cricket Club (see below). Perhaps this would not have raised eyebrows if McIlroy hadn’t won the master a month ago and if he had played well with the new driver’s head this week at the PGA championship.

But McIlroy didn’t do it well at all and only reached four fairways on Thursday and six on Friday. In the middle of this Friday round, Siriusxm reported that Mcilroy’s old driver’s head had been classified by the USGA as “no longer permitted”, which is supervising the driver’s examination this week at Quail Hollow as at PGA Tour events. This wording is vague enough that it could mean a number of things, but Siriusxm employee Jason Sobel made it clear that the driver was classified as a “non-compliant” by the USGA.

During the Spot Sirius XM, the host Taylor Zarzour said: “(McIlroy) could not use it this week – his player, if you like.

A TaylorMade spokesman said he didn’t know why Mcilroy had a new driver’s head.

As for McIlroy? After shot 74 on Thursday, he refused to speak to reporters. And when he had gathered to make the cut on Friday, even though he was finished with consecutive bogeys, he rejected again and ran a series of steps from the torpon and the way to the parking lot.

A similar situation for McIlroy two years ago at the Genesis Invitational 2023. In this case, McIlroy revealed that he had proactively switched to a new driver’s head because he was concerned that the old one would not pass CT test.

“I wish I could use my driver of (2022),” said McIlroy a month later, “but I can’t just do it – they use a driver for so long and it starts to get a little … Basically, he would simply not pass the test.

McIlroy was very successful with the Qi10 driver and devoted himself to the Qi10 driver. In March, he paid a Uber driver almost $ 1,000, whom Jupiter, Florida, transported his old driver to Orlando so that he was able to carry out a club switch with a mid-tournament switch at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

This is not the first time that driver test has become a story in a major. At the Open Championship 2019, when the R&A as a non -compliant driver of Xander Schauffelel was raised as on the test process, which contains only a fraction of the field. The R&A drivers of 30 players randomly tested, and Schauffeles was the only one who did not pass the test – from which we heard.