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Slow camera orbit around the golfer and ball as grass, debris and warm golden-hour light drift in the frame. Visual backdrop for the McIlroy.club swing deep-dive. https://mcilroy.club/rory-swing.mp4 5 2026-04-17T12:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/golf-bag.html 2026-04-17T12:00:00+00:00 monthly 0.7 https://mcilroy.club/golf-bag-poster.jpg Premium Golf Bag on a Dawn Fairway — Background Loop A five-second cinematic background loop of a premium leather-strap golf bag standing upright on a dewy dawn fairway, clubs fanned in the top. 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Visual backdrop for the McIlroy.club streaming guide. https://mcilroy.club/streaming.mp4 10 2026-04-16T12:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/masters-history.html 2026-05-11T12:00:00+00:00 monthly 0.8 https://mcilroy.club/us-open-2026.html 2026-05-13T12:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/golf-travel-poster.jpg US Open 2026 at Shinnecock Hills — Preview Hero Loop Coastal links background loop framing the 2026 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club preview — William Flynn's 1931 wind-and-fescue routing, 18–21 June 2026, McIlroy's chase for a third 2026 major after back-to-back Masters wins. https://mcilroy.club/golf-travel.mp4 6 2026-05-13T12:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/the-open-2026.html 2026-05-14T18:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/golf-travel-poster.jpg The Open Championship 2026 at Royal Birkdale — Preview Hero Loop Coastal links background loop framing the 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale preview — Hawtree and Taylor's 1932 dune-valley routing, 16–19 July 2026, McIlroy's chase for the unprecedented single-calendar-year four-major sweep after back-to-back Masters, Aronimink PGA and Shinnecock US Open. https://mcilroy.club/golf-travel.mp4 6 2026-05-14T18:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/fedex-cup-format.html 2026-05-19T13:00:00+00:00 monthly 0.8 https://mcilroy.club/streaming-poster.jpg FedEx Cup Explained: The PGA Tour Playoff Format - Background Loop Background loop framing the McIlroy.club guide to the FedEx Cup: the PGA Tour season-long points race, the three-event August playoff, the straight 72-hole Tour Championship at East Lake that replaced starting strokes, and Rory McIlroy's record three FedEx Cup titles. https://mcilroy.club/streaming.mp4 10 2026-05-19T13:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/presidents-cup-2026.html 2026-05-19T16:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/rory-swing-poster.jpg 2026 Presidents Cup at Medinah Country Club - Preview Hero Loop Background loop framing the McIlroy.club guide to the 2026 Presidents Cup: the United States against the International Team at Medinah Country Club, 24-27 September 2026, the 30-match format, the captains Brandt Snedeker and Geoff Ogilvy, and why Rory McIlroy is not eligible. https://mcilroy.club/rory-swing.mp4 5 2026-05-19T16:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/st-andrews-old-course.html 2026-05-21T12:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/golf-travel-poster.jpg St Andrews Old Course - A Guided Tour of the Home of Golf - Hero Loop Background loop framing the McIlroy.club hole-by-hole guide to the Old Course at St Andrews: the Swilcan Burn, the seven double greens, the Road Hole 17th, the Swilcan Bridge and the Valley of Sin, and how anyone can play the Home of Golf. https://mcilroy.club/golf-travel.mp4 6 2026-05-21T12:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/pebble-beach.html 2026-05-26T12:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/golf-travel-poster.jpg Pebble Beach Golf Links - The Public Major Venue Hole by Hole - Hero Loop Background loop framing the McIlroy.club hole-by-hole guide to Pebble Beach Golf Links on the Monterey Peninsula: Jack Neville's 1919 routing, the 106-yard par-3 7th, the cliffside 8-9-10, the 17th where Watson chipped in, the 18th along Carmel Bay, six US Opens and the 2027 return. https://mcilroy.club/golf-travel.mp4 6 2026-05-26T12:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/royal-county-down.html 2026-05-29T12:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/golf-travel-poster.jpg Royal County Down Golf Club - Tom Watson's Best Course In The World, Hole By Hole - Hero Loop Background loop framing the McIlroy.club hole-by-hole guide to Royal County Down in Newcastle, Northern Ireland: Old Tom Morris's 1889 routing in the Mountains of Mourne, the par-3 4th, the blind 9th tee view, the bearded bunkers and the yellow gorse, the 2007 Walker Cup and the 2007 and 2015 Irish Opens, and the Rory McIlroy connection from nearby Holywood. https://mcilroy.club/golf-travel.mp4 6 2026-05-29T12:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/pinehurst-no-2.html 2026-06-01T12:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/golf-travel-poster.jpg Pinehurst No. 2 - The Donald Ross Masterpiece and the Crowned Greens - Hero Loop Background loop framing the McIlroy.club guide to Pinehurst No. 2 in the North Carolina Sandhills: Donald Ross's masterpiece opened in 1907 and refined until his death in 1948, the crowned greens that reject any approach off the precise line, the Coore and Crenshaw 2010-11 restoration of the natural sandy waste and wiregrass, the four US Opens (Payne Stewart 1999, Michael Campbell 2005, Martin Kaymer 2014, Bryson DeChambeau 2024), the USGA anchor-site future through 2047, and Rory McIlroy's one-stroke 2024 heartbreak. https://mcilroy.club/golf-travel.mp4 6 2026-06-01T12:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/how-to-break-80.html 2026-06-01T12:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/rory-swing-poster.jpg How To Break 80 - The Math, the Practice Routine, and What Single-Digit Players Actually Do - Hero Loop Background loop framing the McIlroy.club guide to breaking 80 in golf: why 79 on a par 72 needs no birdies (eleven pars and seven bogeys), Mark Broadie's strokes-gained split showing the long game is about two-thirds of the gap, the five habits single-digit players keep, the DECADE bogey-avoidance framework and the Tiger 5 stats, a three-month practice routine, and what Rory McIlroy's tour-leading strokes gained off the tee teaches an amateur. https://mcilroy.club/rory-swing.mp4 5 2026-06-01T12:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/how-to-break-90.html 2026-06-02T12:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/rory-swing-poster.jpg How To Break 90 - The First Major Milestone Most Golfers Never Cross - Hero Loop Background loop framing the McIlroy.club guide to breaking 90 in golf: why 89 on a par 72 is bogey golf with a single par (seventeen bogeys and one par, no birdies), the four scoring leaks that keep most players above 90 (penalty strokes, three-putts, fat and thrown-away shots, and bad tee and second-shot decisions), what playing smart really means at the 14-handicap level, the bag setup that helps (hybrids over long irons, a gap wedge for the scoring zone), a three-month practice plan, and what Rory McIlroy's disciplined avoidance of big numbers teaches an amateur. https://mcilroy.club/rory-swing.mp4 5 2026-06-02T12:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/fix-slice.html 2026-06-02T12:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/rory-swing-poster.jpg How To Fix A Slice - The Path, Face and Grip Fundamentals That Actually Work - Hero Loop Background loop framing the McIlroy.club guide to fixing a golf slice: why every slice is the same physics (a clubface open relative to the swing path, almost always paired with an out-to-in over-the-top path), the ball flight laws showing the face sets about 85 percent of start direction while the face-to-path gap sets the curve, the fix order that works (grip first to square the face, then a square setup instead of aiming left, then an in-to-out path), the drills that retrain each piece (gate or headcover drill, forearm rotation, towel under the arm, whoosh drill), why the over-the-top diagnosis is right but the cure lives in the grip, why the driver slices most, and what Rory McIlroy's shallow in-to-out draw teaches a slicer. https://mcilroy.club/rory-swing.mp4 5 2026-06-02T12:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/strokes-gained-explained.html 2026-06-03T12:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/streaming-poster.jpg Strokes Gained Explained - The Stat That Changed How Golf Is Measured - Hero Loop Background loop framing the McIlroy.club guide to strokes gained: the expected-strokes idea that measures every shot against the average score the field makes from the same spot, the four categories (off the tee, approach, around the green, putting), the history from Mark Broadie and the PGA Tour's ShotLink data (putting in 2011, tee-to-green in 2014, the long-game split in 2016), why approach play explains more of the gap between players than putting, how to read a leaderboard through strokes gained, how amateurs self-track with Arccos and Shot Scope, and how Rory McIlroy's tour-leading strokes gained off the tee contrasts with Scottie Scheffler's approach dominance. https://mcilroy.club/streaming.mp4 10 2026-06-03T12:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/pre-shot-routine.html 2026-06-03T12:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/rory-swing-poster.jpg The Pre-Shot Routine - What Tour Pros Actually Do In Those 30 Seconds - Hero Loop Background loop framing the McIlroy.club guide to the golf pre-shot routine: the frame-by-frame anatomy of an elite routine split into a thinking phase behind the ball (read the lie, wind and yardage, pick the safe miss, commit to one shot and one intermediate target, rehearse the feel) and a reacting phase over the ball (set the clubface to the intermediate target, build the stance to the face, fire a repeatable trigger and go), the intermediate-target trick popularised by Jack Nicklaus and used by Rory McIlroy, the spectrum from a fast reactive McIlroy to a deliberate Bryson DeChambeau and a Spieth putting routine, the 2021 meta-analysis evidence that pre-performance routines improve performance, why putting routines differ from full-swing routines, and how a grooved routine fixes first-tee nerves. https://mcilroy.club/rory-swing.mp4 5 2026-06-03T12:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/golf-shoes-2026.html 2026-06-04T12:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/golf-gear-poster.jpg Best Golf Shoes 2026 - Spikeless vs Soft Spikes, Top Brands Compared - Hero Loop Background loop framing the McIlroy.club buyer's guide to golf shoes in 2026: the one decision that matters (spikeless versus soft spikes), why spikeless is now the right default for most golfers while soft spikes still win in heavy rain, on hilly courses and for aggressive swingers, the six brands that matter (FootJoy, Nike, Adidas, Skechers, Ecco, Puma), three price tiers from about 80 to 270 dollars, the 2026 model picks per tier (FootJoy Pro/SL, Adidas Tour360 25, Skechers GO GOLF Elite, Ecco Biom), fit and width by brand, waterproof warranties, break-in by material, and the Nike Air Zoom Victory Tour 4 that Rory McIlroy wore to win the 2026 Masters. https://mcilroy.club/golf-gear.mp4 10 2026-06-04T12:00:00+00:00 yes no https://mcilroy.club/golf-launch-monitors.html 2026-06-04T12:00:00+00:00 weekly 0.9 https://mcilroy.club/golf-gear-poster.jpg Golf Launch Monitors 2026 - TrackMan, Foresight, Garmin R10, Rapsodo and FlightScope Compared - Hero Loop Background loop framing the McIlroy.club buyer's guide to golf launch monitors in 2026: the three price tiers (the professional tier with TrackMan 4 at about 25,495 dollars and the Foresight GCQuad at about 14,500 dollars, the prosumer tier with the Bushnell Launch Pro, SkyTrak+, FlightScope Mevo+ and Uneekor, and the consumer tier with the Garmin Approach R10 at about 400 dollars, the Rapsodo MLM2PRO and the FlightScope Mevo Gen2), the three tracking technologies (Doppler radar behind the ball, photometric cameras beside it, and hybrid units that combine both), the metrics that matter (club head speed, ball speed, smash factor at the 1.49 tour driver average, launch angle, spin rate around 2,600 rpm on tour, attack angle and spin axis), the simulator software ecosystem (GSPro, E6 Connect, TGC 2019, Foresight FSX), subscription and five-year cost traps, and why TrackMan is the tour standard behind Rory McIlroy and his roughly 122 mph club speed and 1.50 smash factor. https://mcilroy.club/golf-gear.mp4 10 2026-06-04T12:00:00+00:00 yes no