Rory McIlroy has a decent chance of being £7.5million richer come Sunday night but he provoked open-mouthed astonishment on Wednesday when he said it wouldn’t mean much to him. Before the CEO of FedEx, the company responsible for most of that largesse, feels the need to lie down in a darkened room, we should allow the Northern Irishman to explain. ‘Obviously it would be nice to bank that amount but it’s not what excites me about this week,’ he said. ‘The FedEx Cup is not something I have on my c.v and that would be more exciting to me than walking away with the cheque.’