Golf superstar Rory McIlroy hasn’t had a great year — on or off the course.
He was the sacrificial lamb during the long-disputed PGA/LIV golf dispute.
His brief divorce (and subsequent reconciliation) from wife Erica Stoll became major headlines.
And, he blew a lead late in this year’s U.S. Open, costing him a major championship win.
Now political pundits are dragging McIlroy’s golf game into the 2024 presidential race.
During an appearance on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”, Reince Priebus, a former White House Chief of Staff under Donald Trump and also a former chairman of the Republican National Committee was talking about Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s opponent in the upcoming presidential election, and suggested she had struggled during an appearance on another ABC program, “The View.”
To illustrate his point, Priebus compared Harris’ struggles to McIlroy’s botched collapse at the U.S. Open.
“She wanted to clarify the two most important issues that are facing these two candidates, the economy and immigration,” Priebus said, “and she bombed like Rory at the U.S. Open.”
We’ve reached a point in the election cycle where even Rory McIlroy is catching strays pic.twitter.com/GzeST2PmzQ
— Patrick McDonald (@pmcdonaldCBS) October 14, 2024
Seems a little random, and out-of-bounds (no pun intended).
McIlroy three-putted the 71st hole at the Irish Open to lose by one stroke back in September. And then, the following week, McIlroy lost the BMW PGA on a Billy Horschel playoff eagle.
But to compare some struggles on the golf course to a political campaign seems like a stretch.