Lest you think this is a media-driven story or a narrative that will shadow the championship in perpetuity, know it’s one both sides – players and management – acknowledge.
Last week, after his seventh consecutive finish outside the top 10, Rory McIlroy spoke about struggling to find a spark in this new, fan-less normal. Golf didn’t seem like the most important thing in the world. Perhaps we now know one reason why.
Less than 24 hours after Brooks Koepka lorded his four Major titles over the rest of the leaderboard at the 2020 PGA Championship – in particular, over Dustin Johnson – a fellow four-time Major champ, Rory McIlroy, came to DJ's defence.
