BREAKING UPDATE Rory McIlroy skips PGA Tour event again after being fined £2.2m for rule breach
Rory McIlroy has skipped the RBC Heritage two years after paying a hefty fine for withdrawingfrom the tournament. The Masters champion is taking some deserved time off following his Augusta heroics.
McIlroy will not play at the RBC Heritage but, unlike in 2023, he will not be punished for doing so. Back then, the PGA fined players if they missed two signature events during a single season. Having missed the cut at the Masters the week before, McIlroy decided to accept a mammoth £2.2million fine as it was the second signature event he had missed. That rule is no longer in place.
“I had my reasons to not play Hilton Head and I’ve expressed those to Jay [Monahan],” McIlroy said at the time. “It was an easy decision, but I felt like if that fine or whatever is to happen was worth that for me in order to get some things in place.”
McIlroy has decided to skip the RBC Heritage for much happier reasons this year. He returned to Northern Ireland to celebrate completing the Career Slam with his family.
