US PGA Championship: Rory McIlroy says Masters cut was 'wake-up call' for majors ahead

McIlroy (left) has spent immoderate clip practising with Europe Ryder Cup skipper Luke Donald this week astatine Oak Hill successful New York state

Rory McIlroy says missing the chopped astatine the Masters provided him with a small "wake-up call" arsenic helium prepares for this week's US PGA Championship astatine Oak Hill.

"I was ne'er truthful definite I was going to person a large week astatine Augusta and past that happened," McIlroy told BBC Sport.

"The nighttime before, I felt truthful good, but the crippled tin bring you backmost down to world beauteous quickly."

The satellite fig 3 added: "It was a large acquisition to maine to not enactment excessively overmuch into feelings oregon vibes.

"I changeable 5 nether connected the backmost 9 connected Wednesday day [in practice] and everything was successful a bully spot, but that's golf.

"The champion mode is to not fto yourself get to that level of expectation. I request to person a small much acceptance.

"When I deliberation backmost to Augusta and the past fewer months, my level of acceptance wasn't wherever it needs to be. If I enactment connected that, I cognize I'll play immoderate bully play again."

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McIlroy had bully crushed to spell into the Masters successful specified assured manner fixed helium had won the PGA Tour's CJ Cup successful October to instrumentality to the apical of the satellite rankings and followed that with triumph successful the Dubai Desert Classic connected the DP World Tour successful January of this year.

He past finished associated 2nd successful the Arnold Palmer Invitational and 3rd successful the WGC Match Play during March.

However, betwixt those 2 events helium missed the chopped astatine the PGA Tour's flagship Players Championship. He has spoken astir however spending excessively overmuch clip during that play successful meetings astir LIV Golf and the aboriginal of the American circuit play affected his game.

"They accidental clasp the struggle," helium continued. "I'm not saying I'm struggling a lot, I had a accidental to triumph Bay Hill, I had a accidental to triumph the Match Play and it was lone six weeks ago, truthful it's not similar this has been a semipermanent thing.

"It gives you a intent to spell to the scope and enactment connected things. Sometimes, occurrence tin bring complacency and having small wake-up calls on the mode tin beryllium a bully thing."