R-mac opts out of Players

May 6, 2011 - PRLog -- Along with World No 1 Lee Westwood, Rory McIlroy won't be teeing off in the world' richest tournament, The Player's championship, at TPC Sawgrass, at Ponte Vedra Beach in Florida next week.





And on Wednesday the now 22-year-old Northern Ireland birthday boy explained why he is some what controversially giving a Callaway Diablo Octane Tour Driver = http://www.enjoymygolf.com/goods-148-Callaway+Diablo+Octane+Tour+Driver.html  to an event the Americans like to call 'The 5th major'



"It is a year-by-year thing," he said on Wednesday at Quail Hollow Golf Club in North Carolina where he is due to defend his title in the Wells Fargo Championship this week.



"I'm playing Callaway Diablo Octane Tour Driver  here, taking next week off and then playing Spain, Wentworth, Memorial, week off, US Open.



"If I played The Players then the US Open would be my sixth week (out) of seven, which is a lot of golf for me.



"I said to myself that this year I wouldn't play more than three in a row and if I had played The Players it would be five in a row.



"It's just too much golf for me. I feel as if I just get a little lethargic and a little lazy after three events and it would just be best for my preparation for the US Open if I didn't play Callaway Diablo Octane Tour Driver = http://www.enjoymygolf.com/goods-148-Callaway+Diablo+Octa...  of those events.



"Sawgrass was the one - I don't feel that comfortable on the golf course yet. That doesn't mean that I won't play it next year or the year after, but this year it just didn't really fit."



Twelve months ago McIlroy missed the cut in Florida just five days after his astonishing maiden PGA Tour victory in North Carolina.



After making the halfway cut with nothing to spare - and thanks to a late eagle - the world number six followed a third round 66 with a course record 62 to beat Phil Mickelson by four. ( Callaway Diablo Octane Tour Driver = http://www.enjoymygolf.com/goods-148-Callaway+Diablo+Octane+Tour+Driver.html  )



Mickelson, after three weeks off following his disappointing Masters, is back now to try to go one better and is the home favourite in the absence of Woods.



The former world number one, now down to seventh and behind both Mickelson and McIlroy, suffered a mild medial collateral ligament sprain in his left knee and a mild left Achilles tendon strain at Augusta and is not playing this week - and possibly next week as well..



"I must follow doctors' orders to get better," Woods was reported to have said when declaring that he would not be playing Callaway Diablo Octane Tour Driver = http://www.enjoymygolf.com/goods-148-Callaway+Diablo+Octane+Tour+Driver.html  at Quail Hollow where he missed the cut by eight shots a year ago.



"This is precautionary - we're not at all concerned," said his agent Mark Steinberg. "He's just listening to his doctors, which is kind of nice. He certainly didn't do that before the US Open in 2008."

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