“Look, I have my reasons to not play Hilton Head and I’ve expressed those to Jay," McIlroy said. McIlroy said he hasn't heard if PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan plans to withhold the final $3 million from his PIP bonus. McIlroy drew criticism for pulling out because he was one of those who helped establish the rule that top players could only miss one of the PGA Tour's new designated events. He withdrew from the RBC Heritage the following week, a decision that may cost him $3 million of the $12 million he was to earn as part of the PGA Tour’s Player Impact Program bonus. “It sucked,” McIlroy said of missing the cut. He didn't speak to reporters afterward because a rainstorm forced postponement of the second round and all interviews. Instead, McIlroy shot 72-77, missing the cut by three strokes. “I honestly thought I was gonna have the best Masters I’ve ever had,” said McIlroy, the runner-up at Augusta in 2022. He felt supremely confident after shooting 5 under on the second nine during a practice round the day before the tournament. McIlroy arrived at Augusta National nearly a month ago hoping to complete the career Grand Slam by winning his first Masters. “So I think I just gained a little bit of perspective and once I sort of disconnected from it a little bit, I could see things a little clearer and sort of where everything fits within my life. I’d lost sight of the fact that there’s more to life than the golf world and this little silly squabble that’s going on between tours, and all sorts of stuff.
"But I think over the last 12 months, I sort of lost sight of that. “I’ve always thought I’ve had a good handle on the perspective on things and sort of where golf fits within my life, and trying to find purpose outside of golf in some way," McIlroy said. McIlroy, an outspoken opponent of LIV, said it has been a “tumultuous time” and, after stepping away, he came to realize that golf had “totally consumed” his life.
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He’s had to deal with a variety of complex and time-consuming issues, including how to best handle the defection of several top players to Saudi-funded LIV Golf. Instead, he said it was the other stresses that engulfed the PGA Tour over the last year, which he has been highly involved in while serving as a player director for the tour’s policy board.
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While the Masters proved to be a tipping point, McIlroy said it wasn’t his play that prompted him to take a short break.
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