NEW DELHI — Since completing the career Grand Slam, Rory McIlroy has been constantly looking for new ways to inject some freshness and spark into his golf.
Turns out two of his longtime Ryder Cup teammates are providing some inspiration.
For this week’s DP World India Championship, McIlroy has brought along a new look — baggy golf pants.
After all, Tommy Fleetwood has been wearing them for a while.
“I have watched and I have admired Tommy Fleetwood over the past year,” McIlroy said, with a smile, on Wednesday’s DP World Locker Room show about his style that has generated plenty of chatter in New Delhi this week.
“And in my everyday life, when I don’t have to wear what is my golf uniform, I wear a lot of wide-legged pants. It is the in-thing, the fashionable thing.”
But how, McIlroy was asked, do they feel to play golf in?
“These hit a little low, maybe a little short ... I understand they are maybe not as well-fitting as they need to be,” he said, “but they are a work in progress.”
Also in the works for the Northern Irishman is a replica of what he calls his “performance trailer” that he uses in the United States to aid his fitness and recovery during and between PGA Tour events, in an effort to gain an edge over rivals.
Now, he wants one for when he plays on the European tour, too.
McIlroy said that idea came from tennis great Novak Djokovic but also fellow golfer Justin Rose.
“I decided to pull the trigger on it when Justin won in Memphis last year,” McIlroy said. “He’s 45 years old, playing great, contending in major championships, and at that time I was 36. I was like, I want to play really well for the next 10 years — I feel like I need to do something like this.”
