Xander Schauffele's caddie has opened up on the impact of Rory McIlroy's Truist Championship victory in inspiring him to clinch his first major.

The good news for Mitchell is Lowry and Sepp Straka (-10) are the only players to reach double figures under par through the second round. The bad news is the group tied for fourth at 7 under features a who's who of the best players on Tour this season (aside from Scottie Scheffler, who isn't in the field).

FLOURTOWN, Pa. - With all due respect to the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the PGA Tour's lone team event, the Truist Championship was Rory McIlroy's first real test of golf since winning the Masters.

Rory McIlroy was only a few feet away from being hit by a golf ball during the early stages of his final round at the Truist Championship. The fans gathered around McIlroy's shot from the rough all ducked in unison when the 'fore' shout came, and although the stray ball bounced up and hit a policeman, everybody escaped unscathed.

The 2025 Truist Championship, being played at Philadelphia Cricket Club's Wissahickon Course in Pennsylvania this week, has 54 holes in the books with Sunday's final round still to come. After this one-time visit to Philly,

McIlroy didn’t hold back in a press conference this Saturday, admitting that stepping away from PGA Tour politics has cleared his head. “I’m certainly not involved too much in the politics of everything,