Rory McIlroy went to dinner a few nights in one of the best restaurants in this city of England. It got to enjoy your meal in relative peace, with only a handful of fans Pestering him for a photo.
It is difficult to imagine this happening in the approach of the British Open last year, when Rorymania was at its peak.
"It's been nice just go about my business," said McIlroy. "It's been good to sort of prepare and there is no doubt what was going crazy last year."
Then, curly hair and Northern Ireland comes from his first major victory at the U.S. Open and a fugitive who is heralded as the new face of a game desperate to leave behind the beautiful fall of Tiger Woods .
McIlroy failed campaign as well, fighting for a place at Royal St George 25, and then complain about the conditions that are so vile a part of golf as the fairways and greens.
As happens to heresy in these parts, he said categorically: "I am not a fan of golf tournaments in which dictate the outcome this time."
When asked if he should adapt his game to become a serious contender for the oldest major golf, McIlroy seemed quite petulant when he said he had to wait until the opportune moment had a break with the climate.
"Not my kind of golf," he whispered. "I prefer to play when it is 80 degrees and the solar wind and not much else."
Looking back, McIlroy knows he should have had the language.
"These comments were just pure frustration," he admitted.
"It 's been having very high expectations entering, coming from a great victory, and the desire to play well into contention, and not do it. After blaming the same time, the extraction blame, blaming to my luck, in the background. It was frustration. "
Of her eight times, victory in Congress, McIlroy was not much of a factor in the majors.
He was the youngest 64 and the PGA Championship in Atlanta, essentially ruining his chances when he made an unsuccessful attempt to play out once the root of a tree and ended with a sprained wrist.
This year, he left out of contention at the Masters with a yield of 77-76 on the weekend, and even cut trying to defend his Olympic title U.S. Open.
These struggles in the most important have been some to wonder if McIlroy spent too much time savoring his triumph, and not enough time working on his game.
After winning the Congress, took a month before his presentation at the British Open without even bothering to make a competitive game in the middle.
This year, do not pass the cut in half in four of five tournaments, has pledged to go to camp to work on your game just by being photographed jumping from a Eurostar train to Paris to see his girlfriend, the tennis Caroline Wozniacki, participation in the Open de France.
"I'm sure McIlroy wants to try to redeem something, '" said Tony Jacklin, a Hall of Fame who won the 1969 British Open.
"I do not say so rude. We had high expectations earlier this year at Augusta and the U.S. Open and was never much for him. He is a precocious talent."
McIlroy is still only 23 years, and is quick to point out that he has played well enough to climb to the top of world rankings for three different moments of his U.S. Open victory.
Even now, though certainly a little stuck in crisis ", is still ranked No. 2 behind Luke Donald.
"There was never any distractions," he insisted McIlroy. "I do not think my game all went. Everyone has bad and I had a couple of bad weeks where I did not play so well. But it is only a small point of the radar and I feel like you are swinging well again. I feel that this will be a great week to play well. "
How to demonstrate its commitment to make additional efforts to prepare Royal Lytham & St
Annes, McIlroy played three weeks ago at the Irish Open, giving him a taste of links golf and the conditions persnickety. He did the weekend and finished 10.
"I felt I played well in bad conditions," said McIlroy. "If so again this week, we'll just cut and focused and keep fighting and keep trying hard and
shoot a bad score. "
He also did some training with the Rugby Club of Ulster and one of his best friends, Darren Cave.
These days, McIlroy acknowledges that the lack of preparation that he intended that the conditions at Royal St. George.
He had planned to prepare for the Open de France (the version of course), but dropped out to focus on all the media and the demands of sponsors.
Not exactly the way to prepare for a major championship.
"There were so many requests that come in and so much to do," said McIlroy.
"I knew if I went to France to open my mind would not be fully over it, why not go to the end. However, in retrospect, it was good to get more competitive in the week."
He continued by saying: "Obviously, the hype and everything was so great last year too, and yes, maybe had a little 'to do with it, but at the end of the day, I have not played enough. To understand in the tournament. "
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