GOLF LEGEND RORY RESIGNS, CITES ONGOING HARASSMENT FROM PGA RIVALS: In a stunning turn of events, golf legend Rory McIlroy has announced his resignation from the PGA Tour, citing a pattern of ongoing harassment and abuse at the hands of fellow golfers….FULL DETAILS BELOW ⬇️

In a press release shared with the media, Rory cited a series of threatening messages and social media posts as the primary reason for his decision to step away from the sport.

Rory McIlroy is confident of bouncing back from his major heartbreak and says he will learn a lot from narrowly missing out on US Open victory last month.

McIlroy briefly held a two-shot lead with five holes to play at Pinehurst No 2 but bogeyed three of the last four, missing two putts from inside four feet to allow Bryson DeChambeau to snatch a one-shot victory.

The runner-up finish was his second in as many years at a US Open and 21st top-10 in majors since his last success at the 2014 PGA Championship, with McIlroy keen to take positives from disappointment going into his Genesis Scottish Open title defence and The Open next week at Royal Troon.

I look back on that day, just like I look back on some of my toughest moments in my career,” McIlroy said in his press conference ahead of his title defence at the Genesis Scottish Open, live on Sky Sports. “I’ll learn a lot from it and I’ll hopefully put that to good use.

“It’s something that’s been a bit of a theme throughout my career. I’ve been able to take those tough moments and turn them into great things not very long after that.

It was nice to sort of blend in with the city a little bit,” McIlroy revealed. “I walked around. I walked the High Line a couple of times. I made a few phone calls. Sort of was alone with my thoughts for a couple days, which was good.

“I had some good chats with people close to me. As you start to think about not just Sunday at Pinehurst but the whole way throughout the week, there was a couple of things that I noticed I wanted to try to work on coming into here and obviously next week at Troon.

Nick Faldo and Wayne Riley were baffled by some of the decisions Rory McIlroy was making towards the end of his final round of the US Open, which he lost by one shot to Bryson DeChambeau

“They were hard but at the same time, as each day went by, it became easier to focus on the positives and then to think about the future instead of what had just happened.”

McIlroy, who won his first major title in the 2011 US Open just two months after blowing a four-shot lead in The Masters, added: “I still think about the short missed putt that I missed at Crans-sur-Sierre in 2008 in a play-off. You think about all of them.