FedEx Cup: Given the statistically superior campaign the Northern Irishman had, it should come as no surprise that Rory McIlroy hosted the FedExCup at the conclusion of the most recent PGA Tour season.
Despite the fact that his three-win campaign may not rank among his career-high points and that his major championship victories in 2012 and 2014 may never be matched, it nevertheless concluded in one of his most impressive statistical campaigns.
McIlroy finished the season by winning his fourth scoring average title, at 68.67, making him the only player on Tour to finish with a sub-69 average. By winning the FedExCup for the third time, he became the first player in Tour history to do so (the overall average for the 2021-22 season was 71.092).
Only Tiger Woods (eight separate times) and Vijay Singh (2003) have matched McIlroy with a season-long average below 68.7.
McIlroy, 33, won the RBC Canadian Open in the middle of the year after starting the year with a victory at the CJ Cup. He then overcame Scottie Scheffler by six shots at the Tour Championship to complete his fourth season with at least three victories.
Another special week in 🇨🇦 Thank you to all the fans that came out and created an incredible atmosphere. Battling w/ @justinthomas34 and @tonyfinaugolf yesterday is what we dream about. Going up against the best to bring out your best. Proud to get my name on this trophy again. pic.twitter.com/kPhDxwuxVG
— Rory McIlroy (@McIlroyRory) June 13, 2022
“I’m back to playing the golf that I’m used to playing, and the golf that I know that I can play,” McIlroy said prior to the FedEx St. Jude Championship. “Covid was a weird time for everyone, and then coming out of it and going into the 2021 season, with my swing where it was, I was trying to change a couple of things and was going down a path I realized wasn’t the path for me. [I’m] coming back out of that and now getting back to playing the golf I know I can play.”
There is little doubt that McIlroy’s amazing turnaround in a number of areas of his game was the cause of the late-season rise. After finishing The Masters in last place among 209 Tour players in average proximity from 50 to 125 yards (24 feet, 1 inch), McIlroy went on a tear and finished the season in first place among all players with more than 30 tries (14 feet, 1 inch).
Only the second time in his career, joining the 2018-19 season, McIlroy finished the season ranked inside the top-50 in each of the four key Strokes Gained categories (off-the-tee, approach the green, around the green, and putting). Along with The Players, he also won the TOUR Championship and RBC Canadian Open that year.
“This year feels very similar to the way I played in 2019,” he said. “It’s a carbon copy in terms of the consistency and the numbers and the strokes gained numbers, but my finishes in the majors have been better and that’s been – that’s been a real positive looking ahead into next year and the future.”
McIlroy, who now leads the season-long standings, will shift his focus to the DP World Tour in the upcoming weeks. He has appearances set at the BMW PGA Championship, DS Automobiles Italian Open, and Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in the following month.
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