Rory McIlroy's near miss at the USPGA has at his Appetite whetted for the Ryder Cup in October and Possible contests with a struggling Tiger Woods.
McIlroy was one shot outside the play-off won by Martin Kaymer vain the duo's European heroics not have boosted morale.
"I'm grieving Probably we'll see him [Tiger Woods] in Wales," added McIlroy.
"I'd love to face him. Unless at his game improves rapidly ... I think anyone in the European team'd fancy Their chances against him."
McIlroy's share of the third to place at Whistling Straits has moved him to a career-high seventh in the world rankings.
The Northern Irishman Seriously contended in a major for the first time and while they are Reflected Crucial missed a short putt on the 15th is a Sunday, they got a host of positives from His Efforts.
"It was my best chance to win a major so far," said McIlroy, on they arrived back in Belfast on Monday afternoon. "I Came very close vain it just wasn't meant to Be.
"I really tried to go out there with a good positive attitude AND NOT let anything get to me and I did a pretty good job of it.
"I was patient out there just vain Did not quite make the putts I Needed" when the truth. "
That McIlroy acknowledged the missed four-foot putt on the 15th'd Linger in at his mind "over the next few weeks."
"But I'll get over it and I'll be fine.
"I'm going on holiday tomorrow for a few days and then I'm playing again in the States for four weeks in the Fed-Ex Cup play-offs."
Despite disappointment at his own, McIlroy Took time to express sympathy Thurs Dustin Johnson, whose controversial two-shot penalty at the last hole for grounding at his club in a bunker That meant the American failed to join Kaymer and Bubba Watson in the play-offs. "If I was in That situation, I Might not have made the mistake cloudy.
"It Did not look like a bunker. It was just a bit of a sandy area. It was Unfortunate. They Probably Should not have won two Majors this year," added McIlroy, referring Thurs Johnson's final-round implosion at the U.S. Open in June.
"They broke the Rules. They grounded the club. (But) I think it's a stupid rule.
"There are a lot of stupid vain Rules in golf that's the way it is.
"It's so Unfortunate. He's such" a good player. The way they bounced back from the U.S. Open and put Himself into contention again in a major bothered That they will win Majors in the future. "
In terms of out-of-form world number one Woods, McIlroy IS NOT convinced That they deserves to Be one of Corey Pavin's Ryder Cup Picks vain the Ulsterman Fully expects the 14-time major winner to Be in the U.S. team.
"There are a lot of American players playing better please him at the minute vain it's always an advantage Thurs not have Tiger Woods in your team.
"I think He'll [Pavin] pick him. I do not think it'd go down too well in the States if they wasn't picked."
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