Brandel Chamblee gives honest verdict as Rory McIlroy finally breaks silence on lack of PGA Championship interviews

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Rory McIlroy has finally spoken out after skipping media duties at the PGA Championship and Brandel Chamblee has offered up his honest take on proceedings.

McIlroy was speaking today ahead of the Canadian Open and admitted that he had indeed chosen not to speak to the press.

He named a number of reasons, including tee times and spending time with his family. However, he crucially mentioned the driver issue which was big news at the time, admitting to being ‘p–sed off’ at the situation and the media breaking the story.

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In the end, it was revealed that Scottie Scheffler’s driver was also taken off him that week to take the pressure off just McIlroy.

Nevertheless, he was always going to need to answer questions on the situation and now, golf analyst Brandel Chamblee has had his say on McIlroy’s comments.

Brandel Chamblee says if he backs Rory McIlroy’s media skipping or not

Taking to X to post about the situation, Chamblee explained his reasoning behind almost backing McIlroy’s stance and insisted that in today’s media, the Masters winners’ reasons were fair.

“The amount of time a player/athlete is willing to give those who cover them, with few exceptions, has from time immemorial been proportional to the amount of good will extended to them by the media. If a player/athlete possesses any tolerable amount of common sense and has paid any attention to the way past greats have been followed around by scribes, they would see the reciprocal nature of competing in and the covering of sport,” Chamblee wrote.

“Having said that, I think the recent trend of players choosing to not talk to the media is somewhat understandable (aside from Morikawa’s “I don’t owe you anything” comment) given the fact that social-media has created a “first beats best” mentality amongst a few that give the rest a bad name. A long way from when Herbert Warren Wind would take weeks to craft a game story about a major, taking great care to be accurate and fair.”

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Rory McIlroy can be excused but anymore will start to look suspicious

There were all sorts of accusations thrown the way of Rory McIlroy in the midst of the saga at the PGA Championship but now he’s explained things, you can see his point of view.

Yes, maybe he shouldn’t be punishing the whole media room if he feels just a few are to blame but then again, how does he know who has ‘leaked’ the information?

McIlroy has been around to know the game and he spoke of appreciating what the media do for him and other golfers as well.

However, he’ll surely have to speak at the Canadian and US Opens or he’ll risk getting a reputation.

And if that happens, the world of golf can quickly turn on you and that’s something McIlroy simply will not want to happen.