{"id":69048,"date":"2026-03-16T07:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/rory-mcilroy-will-see-how-body-feels-and-assess-schedule-before-masters\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:56:25","slug":"rory-mcilroy-will-see-how-body-feels-and-assess-schedule-before-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/rory-mcilroy-will-see-how-body-feels-and-assess-schedule-before-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy will see how \u2018body feels\u2019 and assess schedule before Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019ll see how I feel in practice,\u2019 says world No 2<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>McIlroy hampered by back injury before Players Championship<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rory McIlroy will weigh up whether to play another event before the defence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/14\/rory-mcilroy-secures-career-grand-slam-after-dramatic-masters-playoff-win-over-justin-rose\">his Masters title<\/a> next month after an underwhelming outing at the Players Championship. He was the defending champion at TPC Sawgrass, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/11\/liv-to-remain-frozen-out-of-players-championship-says-pga-tour-chief-executive\">his preparation was hampered by a back injury<\/a> and he finished in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/15\/cameron-young-matt-fitzpatrick-players-championship-golf\">a disappointing tie for 46th o<\/a>n Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll see how my body feels,\u201d said the world No 2. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how I feel in practice and at home and if I get itchy feet at home maybe add an event at some point.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/16\/rory-mcilroy-playing-schedule-back-injury-masters-golf\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We\u2019ll see how I feel in practice,\u2019 says world No 2 McIlroy hampered by back injury before Players Championship Rory McIlroy will weigh up whether to play another event before the defence of his Masters title next month after an underwhelming outing at the Players Championship. He was the defending champion at TPC Sawgrass, but &#8230; <a title=\"Rory McIlroy will see how \u2018body feels\u2019 and assess schedule before Masters\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/rory-mcilroy-will-see-how-body-feels-and-assess-schedule-before-masters\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rory McIlroy will see how \u2018body feels\u2019 and assess schedule before Masters\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}