Rory McIlroy is crediting his recent golfing wins to dumping his fiance earlier this year.
The Irish golfer broke up with Danish tennis star Caroline
Wozniacki earlier in the year, and told reporters at the PGA
Championship it has done wonders for his career.
“I think what happened has been for the better in terms of my
golf,” he said. “I’ve put a bit more time into it and it has refocused
me. I mean, what else do I have to do now?”
As cruel as his comments may sound to his former fiancee, his game has improved since calling the wedding off. McIlroy
won the PGA Championship in Kentucky, taking his career tally to four major titles including this year's British Open.
The current world No.1, who
re-won the title from Adam Scott, says being single has given him more time to focus on his game.
"I go to the golf course, I go to the gym and it’s just my
life at the minute," McIlroy said at the PGA Championship. "I worked
pretty hard before but the past couple of months I’ve really just buried
myself in my game. It obviously works pretty well, so I am going to
keep doing it."
McIlroy and Wosniacki had been dating since 2011, and the 25-year-old
golfer took their relationship to the next level when he proposed to
her on New Years Eve in Sydney.
Then McIlroy
ended the engagement in May this year, a week after the couple had sent out invitations to their planned November wedding.
“The wedding invitations issued at the weekend made me realise that I wasn't ready," McIlroy said..
Lone star: Rory McIlroy lifts the Wanamaker trophy after winning the PGA Championship. Photo: Getty Images
''Obviously, it’s quite a difficult time for Caroline and myself,'' he said.
''It was mutual and amicable and we both thought it was the best for us, the best for both of us.''
However the 23-year-old tennis star says she was shocked and
initially thought McIlroy was joking when he called her to say wedding
was off.
“Obviously, it’s always you know, you’re not prepared for
something like this, and [it] came [as] a bit as a shock,” Wosniacki
said in a press conference. She went on to exit the French Open in round
one shortly after their split, but since then has gone from strength to
strength in her career and is world No. 12.
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