Rory McIlroy’s banner year in golf ended with fitting drama Sunday when he eagled the last hole in regulation to force a playoff but lost out to Matt Fitzpatrick, who won the season-closing World Tour Championship for a third time.

The questions Rory McIlroy found so annoying in the months after his greatest feat in golf still linger. Where is the next mountain? What else is there to achieve?

Rory McIlroy has described LIV Golf’s decision to expand its events to 72 holes as “peculiar.”

Outgoing commissioner Jay Monahan has used a form of this word — regenerate — twice in the last two years. It got lost amid topics like private equity investments and a pathway back for LIV Golf players, and even turning over the helm to a new CEO.