Yahoo Sports · Aug 12, 2015
McIlroy expects to play well on PGA return
By Mark Lamport-Stokes
KOHLER, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Forty days after suffering an ankle injury, Rory McIlroy will launch his title defense in this week's PGA Championship at Whistling Straits fully expecting to play well.
Though the Northern Irish world number one has not competed since he tied for ninth in the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay in June, he pronounced himself ready after giving himself a fitness test over four days in Portugal last week.
"Expectation levels are the same," McIlroy told a packed interview room in the media center at Whistling Straits on Wednesday on the eve of the year's final major. "I have played quite a number of rounds of golf.