Of the 24 other players who have been No.
Yes, eight years is a long drought for McIlroy, but the key words there are “for McIlroy.” He has won four majors. Both of those facts can be interpreted as shots at him. He has only won majors when scores were low and he could run away from the field. McIlroy has not won a major in eight years. Smith has to clear his head of demons from this year’s Masters and Saturday’s round. Cameron Young is also young – and is not as accomplished as Hovland. Now it’s up to Rory to finish it, and he should be the betting favorite just as he is the sentimental one. Hideki Matsuyama Withdraws From FedEx St. McIlroy and Johnson get along quite well, but it was surely less stressful playing with Hovland, his Ryder Cup teammate. Saudi Arabia government-funded LIV Golf (DJ). Hovland snuck into a group with McIlroy, bumping Johnson, and sparing McIlroy a dozen questions about the narrative: PGA Tour (Rory) vs. Then there was residual good fortune from Friday. Masters champion Scottie Scheffler had chances to move forward and moved … well, a little forward. Then there was Johnson, who had a putt for eagle on the par-5 14th and promptly sent it past the hole and into a bunker. He made double bogey and now sits four strokes behind.
It’s never ideal when your ball looks down at you. Then he arrived at the 13th hole, hit what “I thought was a perfect tee shot” and found the ball sitting next to a bunker. Cam Smith, the Players Championship winner who began the day with a two-stroke lead, suddenly couldn’t make a putt. Meanwhile, almost everybody who is anybody looked like a nobody. I could have been up against the wall.” He made a bogey 5. But McIlroy said “It could have been way worse. On the Road Hole, McIlroy’s approach came out hot, scooted over the green, and over the road, right toward the stone wall. And that was a nice bonus.” (He also restrained himself from celebrating the eagle too much because he did not want to distract Dustin Johnson and Scottie Scheffler, who were teeing off nearby on No. You need a little bit of luck every now and again, especially in these big tournaments. As he said afterward: “It was skill that got it somewhere close but it was luck that it went in. On the 10th hole Saturday, he tried sticking a bunker shot within 10 feet and rolled it into the cup for eagle. He has also been lucky in small but important ways. But this week, McIlroy has been in control of his emotions and his game. There have also been times when he was about as adept with his wedges as a baby seal is with a knife and fork. “The more people bring up the result, the more I’m going to just harp on the process,” he said.Īnybody who follows golf knows that there have been times when major-championship stakes got in McIlroy’s head, especially at a certain tournament in Georgia.
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