Rory ready for US Open challenge

Rory McIlory gets acquainted with Chambers Bay golf course on Saturday ahead of next week’s US Open confident that some time away from the game will have done him a power of good.

I had played five weeks in a row, and mentally, I was ready to have a little break,” McIlroy said at the PGA Championship media day at Whistling Straits where he stopped off en route for the Pacific Northwest and the year’s second major.

The reference to last year concerned McIlroy’s back-to-back major wins at the British Open and the PGA Championship, taking his haul of major titles to four at the age of 25 (he is now 26).

I’d love to win a fifth, and hopefully when I do win a fifth, I’d love to win a sixth.

After the US Open, McIlroy is playing two courses he knows well for majors, with the British Open headed to St.