SHEBOYGAN, Wis. —Rory McIlroy says his ankle is fine, so he’s back, just in time to try to defend his title at this week’s PGA Championship. If you didn’t miss him in the two months that he has been gone, that’s perfectly acceptable to him, because, truth be told, he didn’t miss golf all that much himself.
“I honestly thought it was going to be harder than it was,” McIlroy said Wednesday, talking about being gone during a stretch of the summer that would have included his defense of his British Open title. “I thought I was going to miss it more than I did.