Rory McIlroy Gets Honest on New Career Goals, a Ryder Cup Captaincy, and His Future in Golf
The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Fried Egg Golf
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On a very special episode of The Fried Egg Golf Podcast, five-time major champion and career grand slam winner Rory McIlroy sits down with Kevin Van Valkenburg to talk legacy, career goals, life after golf, and his bucket list courses.
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| 0:00.0 | I misogreen, for example, I'm already upset. |
| 0:02.0 | When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. |
| 0:05.0 | And when I find my ball in a... |
| 0:06.0 | Fried egg. |
| 0:07.0 | Friday egg. |
| 0:08.0 | The dreaded fried egg. |
| 0:09.0 | Friday. |
| 0:10.0 | Friday. |
| 0:11.0 | Fried egg lie. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm about ready to of the Friday Golf podcast. |
| 0:42.1 | I know you're probably not expecting a new podcast in your feed, but we felt like we should drop this into the podcast feed. |
| 0:50.5 | We had a great opportunity to sit down with Rory McElroy a couple weeks ago at Riviera. |
| 0:56.8 | We had Kevin Van Valkenberg interview Rory for about a half hour, and it was sensational. |
| 1:04.2 | Kevin did a great job, and Rory gave a lot of really thoughtful answers to a wide range of topics. |
| 1:11.3 | So we decided it would be a great thing to just drop into the podcast feed. |
| 1:17.3 | It's also available on YouTube if you'd like to go watch it there. |
| 1:22.1 | If you have already listened to this, just move on. |
| 1:25.9 | But we figured for those that don't watch YouTube, |
| 1:29.7 | this would be a nice thing to put into your feed. So before we get to the interview, |
| 1:36.0 | this is Players Week. Players Week is brought to you by Optum. Optum is making the healthcare |
| 1:42.3 | simpler, smarter, and more conducted. Optum is a proud partner of the players, |
| 1:47.5 | and also, Rory McElroy is an Optum health ambassador. Thanks to Optum for their support of our players' coverage, |
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