{"id":20993,"date":"2015-07-10T12:03:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/mickelson-rose-and-kuchar-defend-mcilroys-soccer-play\/"},"modified":"2015-07-10T12:03:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:03:14","slug":"mickelson-rose-and-kuchar-defend-mcilroys-soccer-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/mickelson-rose-and-kuchar-defend-mcilroys-soccer-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickelson, Rose and Kuchar defend McIlroy’s soccer play"},"content":{"rendered":"

England\u2019s Justin Rose and Americans Phil Mickelson and Matt Kuchar have come out in defense of Northern Ireland\u2019s Rory McIlroy saying the world number one \u201ccan\u2019t live his life in fear,\u201d even after suffering a serious left ankle injury while playing soccer with friends in Northern Ireland. That injury has resulted in McIlroy not playing in the Open Championship, which takes place next week.<\/span> <\/p>\n

Mickelson knows from experience what it means to miss a major because of sports. In March 1994 he fell while skiing in Arizona and broke his femur in half. That caused him to miss the Masters for the only time as a professional and he was unable to compete for three months. <\/p>\n

\u201cI said then, and I feel the same way now, that you can\u2019t live your life in fear,\u201d Mickelson said at the Scottish Open. \u201cI don\u2019t think he (McIlroy) was taking an unnecessary risk. Accidents happen and it\u2019s a risk you can\u2019t avoid,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

\u201cPeople get hurt while they\u2019re in the shower or doing normal day-to-day things,\u201d the American left-hander added.<\/p>\n

Something like that happened to Kuchar in the lead-up to last year\u2019s PGA Championship. After scouring a plethora of stores to buy a water slide for his children, the American was sitting in the car when his back suddenly gave out. Two days later, the pain still hadn\u2019t subsided and Kuchar had to withdraw from the final major of the season. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe you can stop living life,\u201d the American said. \u201cYou can\u2019t form a bubble around yourself. You can\u2019t protect everything either. So I don\u2019t think you should stop doing what you\u2019ve always done.\u201d <\/p>\n

Rose also did not criticize his Ryder Cup teammate, noting that McIlroy is the type of player who likes to \u201ckeep his mind off golf.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Rory is the type of person who would not perform well if he practiced 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Obviously it\u2019s likely to be the last time Rory will play soccer in the middle of the season, although it\u2019s very easy to say that after it happens,\u201d the Englishman concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

England\u2019s Justin Rose and Americans Phil Mickelson and Matt Kuchar have come out in defense of Northern Ireland\u2019s Rory McIlroy saying the world number one \u201ccan\u2019t live his life in fear,\u201d even after suffering a serious left ankle injury while playing soccer with friends in Northern Ireland. That injury has resulted in McIlroy not playing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}