Rory McIlroy addressed by tour chiefs with plan to skip more tournaments after £2.3m fine

The CEO of the DP World Tour has insisted that he is not worried about 's plan to drastically reduce his schedule next year. , including one he was fined £2.3million for missing last year.

The 36-year-old was slapped with the heavy fine after his late withdrawal from the RBC Heritage a year ago. The tournament, which takes place in the week after the Masters, is no longer mandatory with McIlroy able to skip it again if he wishes to.

The impact of McIlroy's reduced schedule will be felt on the PGA Tour but concerns have also been raised about his level of commitment to the DP World Tour. He will play his seventh tournament of the campaign at the Tour Championships later this week.

Guy Kinnings, the CEO of the DP World Tour, has made it clear that he is not worried about the impending changes to McIlroy's schedule for 2025.

"I speak to him very regularly, because he's so important to us," said Kinnings. "I'm not going to speak for him on his schedule but I'm not worried about him supporting us the way he has done.

"He makes his own decision as to what his actual schedule is, but he's been such an unbelievable supporter of ours. I have no idea on numbers. All I know is I'm confident that he will support this tour in the way he always has."

Explaining his decision to make sweeping changes to his schedule, McIlroy said he was looking to avoid the 'hard slog' of entering up to 30 events in the space of just 12 months.

"There's a few tournaments that I played this year that I don't usually play and that I might not play next year," McIlroy told The Telegraph last week.

"I played the Cognizant [Classic] in Palm Beach Gardens, [the Texas Open in] San Antonio and the [RBC Heritage in] Hilton Head, and I'll probably not play the first play-off event in Memphis.

"I mean, I finished basically dead last there this year [tied for 68 in a 70-man field], and only moved down one spot in the play-off standings. Well, at this point in my career... I'm 35 and have been out here for 17, 18 years.

"I'm just going to go to the places that I enjoy and where I play well. Look, I've done the hard slog, I've done that sort of 25 to 30 events a year, and I'm not getting any younger."