Analysis - McIlroy struggles with the steep price of fame

SEOUL (Reuters) - In a year when Rory McIlroy has failed to muster a win, missed the cut at the British Open, quit a tournament mid-round and broke a club in frustration, it says much about his troubled private life that he still finds solace in playing golf.

With a high-profile relationship with Caroline Wozniacki hogging the headlines and a bitter court case lurking in the background, McIlroy has no shortage of distractions to overcome before he can recapture the form that shot him to the top of the order of merit on both sides of the Atlantic last year.