McIlroy out!

[MendieGK]

Stupid that he thinks he may recover in time or that he played football. Surely not the later as injuries can happen anywhere so these accidents are going to happen and you can't avoid all activity just in case.

I'm on the fence about this, Yes he should be careful, but should he really avoid doing anything other than golf? he's mid 20s and wants to enjoy his life.

On the flip side, doing too much has caused Paul Casey no end of problems!

 

[Tashyboy]

Well at least me and Rory now have summat in common. Tashyboy snapped his playing FOOTBALL at a barbecue about 20 years ago (next goal winner). Where have we heard that before.
Anyway I had a modified Bostrum repair to reattach the Ligament about 18 months ago. basically a 2-3" incision, grind a notch in yer ankle pull the ligament into the grove. Bit of a loop and then staple it in. A few months later the Bone grows over the grove, bone and staples, and hey presto.
wake up in the middle of the first night with a feeling of someone has stuck a red hot poker in yer ankle. Agony, only matched by the initial snapping of the ankle in the first place.
Had to have it done as I was fed up of "wapping over" on me ankle and smacking my right knee on the floor. Mostly on the golf course looking for balls in the rough (mine).
Rory, drop me an email if you need the name of a good surgeon.😳😜
PS, for the record it was the best thing I could of had done.
PPS, With him having to have secondary scans in 48 hrs, I am not totally sure they know the full extent of his injury yet, ie how good or bad it is.
PPS, Flippin Eck, posties just dropped off this months golf monthly, front page is piccie of Rory and How to be a winner. Hmm bad timing me finks.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I think this is different to the Casey injury. He himself admits he likes an edge to his non golf activity so I think he hurt himself snowboarding. Any sportsman who goes skiing / snowbaording etc is being pretty irresponsible and risking his/her body. I suspect most rugby / football contracts forbid snow based activities. Rory was having a kick about with his mates. It sounds like a simple case of bad luck. He was not doing a dangerous sport and you need a release from the pressures of pro sport.

I should add that I like Paul Casey as a golfer and it is great to see him back near the top again.

 

[MendieGK]

I think this is different to the Casey injury. He himself admits he likes an edge to his non golf activity so I think he hurt himself snowboarding. Any sportsman who goes skiing / snowbaording etc is being pretty irresponsible and risking his/her body. I suspect most rugby / football contracts forbid snow based activities. Rory was having a kick about with his mates. It sounds like a simple case of bad luck. He was not doing a dangerous sport and you need a release from the pressures of pro sport.

I should add that I like Paul Casey as a golfer and it is great to see him back near the top again.

I agree, i dont think there is any argument that fully fit and on form, Casey is probably the best golfer england has!

People are slating Rory for playing football, but i dont think its fair.

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

Not quite on Rory's scale but back in 1990 we were joined in our Sunday 5 a side game by a lad who two days later was playing at Old Trafford against Man U in a European Cup Winners Cup game. There were a few tasty tackles that went in on him and he managed to get through it unscathed but was on the wrong end of a 3-0 scoreline on the Tuesday.

 

[User62651]

I was amazed to see no giant swoosh on the support - plenty of ad space there to exploit.

 

[Crazyface]

Torn ligament? 8 weeks min. Just how stupid is Rory?

Stupid? So at 26 he's not gonna run about and play different sports with a few mates? Why is that stupid? Hes' not allowed to enjoy life?????

 

[Khamelion]

Kind of Ironic, that in this months GM, Rory is on he front cover and the article inside is entitled, Rory McIlroy "How I became a Champion", well it certainly wasn't by playing football and getting injured.

 

[Paul77]

He'll feel like a total nork for doing it anyway whether we have an opinion on it or not. We'll still get an Open championship tournament worthy of gluing to it. If he's fit great, if not, then he'll need to live with it. My personal view would have been that if I had two of the biggest tournaments in my calendar coming up I'd be very careful about what I did leading up to it. Just the way life is sometimes.

 

[garyinderry]

I don't like doing nets on a Thursday night if I have a forum meet coming up never mind the open at St Andrews.

File this in the silly folder.

 

[TheDiablo]

Stuff like this happens. Silly injuries come about. Think Glenn McGrath ahead of the Ashes standing on a loose cricket ball while playing football and rolling his ankle. I think David James put his back out reaching for a remote control!

No need to over analyse. Rest up, hope it doesn't require surgery and move on.

 

[Joff]

People saying he is silly, pipe down! He was having a kick about! Just unlucky.

 

[Jimaroid]

Yep, he could have fallen over putting his trousers on and done worse.

It's just not his year is it?

 

[garyinderry]

This was an avoidable injury. That is why it was silly.

Age doesn't come into it.

 

[FairwayDodger]

Can't wrap yourself in cotton wool, though.

 

[JohnnyDee]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it?

Take "he was silly" to its logical conclusion then once he recovers he's wheeled from the course at the end of a round. Placed on an bed, wheeled to the course next day, risks all by playing golf and then he repeats this process ad infinitum, only to stop it when he graduates into the Seniors.

I know, perhaps if he could be cryogenically frozen between tournaments and then thawed out on a Wednesday night that would eliminate the 'risks' of day to day life between tournaments.

 

[Imurg]

I think he's done for 3 months.
6-8 weeks until its healed and then another 3-4 to get back to being "match fit".
So he's going to miss the rest of the Majors and WGCs as well as the Fed Ex playoffs.
Might get back in time for the end of the European season.

 

[JustOne]

He's finished, will never win another major



.... and just like Tiger he will dump his long term squeeze and start sleeping around...... oh, hang on........

 

[Slime]

I think he is effectively done for the season.
I tore my ankle ligaments many years ago and was off footy for six months ......................... he's ruptured his which, I believe, is more severe.
I wish him a speedy recovery and ...................... don't give up the footy!

Slime.

 

[SatchFan]

Nike - Just Don't Do It.