Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler had a great back-and-forth on Tuesday at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am around Scheffler's Christmas incident.

Rory McIlroy didn't appear too interested in indulging a reporter's question about the PGA Tour's declining TV ratings and pace of play issues.

Rory McIlroy doesn't have a cure-all solution to golf's pace-of-play problem, and he knows the ideas he does have won't make everyone happy.

On the broadcast, fans could simply hear the ball crash into the flag before staying in the cup which put a massive grin on McIlroy’s face as he celebrated by high fiving his caddie, Harry Diamond, and his playing partners, Ryder Cup teammate Ludvig Aberg and amateurs Jeff Rhodes and Jimmy Dunne.

Rory McIlroy celebrates his second career hole-in-one during the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, marking a strong return to the PGA Tour.

Northern Irish professional golfer Rory McIlroy has presented a solution to address the slow pace of play that has become a issue on the PGA Tour.

After recovering from a freak injury suffered during the holidays, Scottie Scheffler is back on tour and ready to hopefully have a good showing this weekend. The world No. 1 might be a little rusty after so much time off, but whenever the big man is on the course, Scheffler is always a contender.

The return of the most anticipated champions, from Scottie Scheffler to Rory McIlroy, the participation of some of the greats of the sport such as, among others, Pau Gasol, Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Steve Young.

Rory McIlroy will be making his PGA Tour season debut this week, but Pebble Beach is not the golf course to deploy him. Pebble is one of the least driver-heavy golf courses on the PGA Tour, and it consistently mitigates McIlroy’s advantage off the tee, which properly explains his porous 66th-place finish at this event last year.

McIlroy has committed to a reduced playing schedule – having played 27 times last season, juggling the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour – for the year ahead, with three prime targets: firstly, the Masters in April; the 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush; and the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in New York in September.

Rory McIlroy is set to tee it up at the Spyglass Hill Golf Course and Pebble Beach Golf Links for this week's AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.