Rory McIlroy believes the Ryder Cup has become too big of an event for a captain to play in the matches and said Wednesday he already shot down the idea when approached about doing it himself someday.

Northern Irishman insists dual role verges on the impossible job as Europe begin to relish the tension building in US camp

Rory McIlroy says he rejected the idea of being a playing captain at a future Ryder Cup "straight away" as he believes it "would be very difficult to do".