{"id":47047,"date":"2026-05-12T16:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/pga-championship-rory-mcilroy-abandons-practice-round-after-3-holes-due-to-toe-blister\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:34:56","slug":"pga-championship-rory-mcilroy-abandons-practice-round-after-3-holes-due-to-toe-blister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/pga-championship-rory-mcilroy-abandons-practice-round-after-3-holes-due-to-toe-blister\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Championship: Rory McIlroy abandons practice round after 3 holes due to toe blister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NEWTON SQUARE, Pa. \u2014 Not to get ahead of ourselves here, but&#8230; Rory McIlroy called off Tuesday&#8217;s practice round at the PGA Championship after just three holes. He may have relapsed from the blister that caused him to limp after the Tourist Championship in Charlotte two days earlier. A photo of McIlroy on the Aronimink course showed him without his right shoe.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-figure\">\n<div class=\"content-image\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"lightbox-btn\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"lightbox-expand\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Image Lightbox\" class=\"lightbox-overlay\" aria-modal=\"true\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"fig-caption\">\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>Rory McIlroy looks at his feet as he stands on the fourth tee during a practice round before the PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown, Pennsylvania, May 12, 2026. (Photo by Emily Chin\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caption-credit\">    (Emily Chin, via Getty Images)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a blister on my pinky toe on my right foot,&#8221; McIlroy said on Sunday, before adding a chilling line: &#8220;But it&#8217;s under my nail. So I can&#8217;t reach that far. So it hurts a little bit, but I&#8217;m fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy arrived at Aronimink on Monday night. He played the course two weeks ago but has yet to complete a practice round this week. He did not discuss the health of his foot at a press conference early Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy, aiming for his second straight major and third PGA Championship, is scheduled to tee off at 8:40 a.m. Thursday with Jon Rahm and Jordan Spieth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWTON SQUARE, Pa. \u2014 Not to get ahead of ourselves here, but&#8230; Rory McIlroy called off Tuesday&#8217;s practice round at the PGA Championship after just three holes. He may have relapsed from the blister that caused him to limp after the Tourist Championship in Charlotte two days earlier. A photo of McIlroy on the Aronimink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-47047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}