Rory McIlroy says RBC Heritage withdrawal was for his 'mental and emotional wellbeing'

McIlroy declined to bash immoderate media interviews aft missing the chopped astatine the Masters

Rory McIlroy has said his "mental and affectional wellbeing" was a crushed for him withdrawing from the RBC Heritage lawsuit past month.

McIlroy volition marque his archetypal instrumentality to contention since Augusta astatine this week's Wells Fargo Championship.

"I needed a interruption for me," the Northern Irishman told the Golf Channel.

• McIlroy withdraws from RBC Heritage event

"Obviously, aft the disappointment of Augusta, and it's been a beauteous taxing 12 months mentally, truthful it was bully to conscionable effort to disconnect a small spot and get distant from it.

"But it's bully to travel backmost and consciousness refreshed and I deliberation we're connected a beauteous engaged tally present from present until aft the play-offs truthful I'm excited to get going.

"I deliberation it was a operation of a fewer things, and conscionable aft the disappointment of Augusta and however I played there, it was conscionable much for my intelligence and affectional wellbeing I conscionable needed to beryllium astatine location for those fewer weeks but, arsenic I said, looking guardant to getting backmost this week."

He added: "I deliberation I'm successful a amended headspace than I was. Yes, you know, that run-up to Augusta is ever a stressful capable mates of weeks trying to marque definite everything is successful the close bid and making definite your crippled is successful bully shape.

"I deliberation for maine it was a bully reset due to the fact that I inactive had to realise that determination are 3 much majors this year, determination is simply a ton near to play for."

McIlroy declined to bash immoderate post-round interviews aft failing to marque the halfway chopped successful what was a disappointing show astatine the Masters.

The RBC Heritage was the 2nd designated PGA Tour lawsuit that the 33-year-old has skipped this year, 1 much than players ranked successful the apical 20 of the circuit's Player Impact Program (PIP) are allowed to miss.

Having already sat retired the season-opening Sentry Tournament of Champions successful January, this 2nd lack could perchance outgo him bonus wealth from the PIP, which is distributed astatine the extremity of the PGA Tour play and which earned McIlroy £7.5m successful 2022.

McIlroy volition beryllium aiming to triumph the Wells Fargo Championship for a 4th clip erstwhile helium competes astatine Quail Hollow this week, having won the rubric successful 2010, 2015 and 2021.