Player Championship: Rory McIlroy ‘drives happiness’ while Scottie Scheffler Rues missed the chances of opening a circle | Golf news
Rory McIlroy admitted that improvement was needed from a teenager after “riding his happiness” during the strong start of the player championship on TPC Sawgrass.
McIlroy carted five below 67, despite finding four sailing during an open day, where he mixed seven birds with two swamps to sit in a shot of early guidance.
World no. 2 Transferred driver and forest in the middle of the tournament during last week Arnold Palmer InvitationalReturning to his previous clubs ahead of the last round after an uneven driving screen.
McIlroy was stuck with the same original Taylormade clubs at the leading event of PGA Tour, where he continued to fight a teenager and ended up even 140 per field of 144 people for driving accuracy.
“I certainly didn’t drive him the way I wanted,” McIlroy told reporters after his opening. “I didn’t hit him in as many shallows as I would love.
“I think the greenery is so receptive, you can get a little bit. I will not be able to escape with that for the rest of the week. Somehow he ran a little happiness.”
McIlroy amazed his opening of two holes and responded to two bugs during his next five, collecting four consecutive birds from the ninth, taking him to four below, before he created a sensational recovery from the trees in the fourth district, to add a bird in the last hole.
“It’s a (right) better place than on the left, so I was just trying to cut three wood on the wind to transfer it to a fruit road,” Mcilroy explained. “You’re just hoping for your back and a gap, and I had it.
“I was just trying to cut five iron toward the front of green and make four and get out of there. He was a bonus to get it on the greenery and open that Putt was a nice way to finish.”
Scheffler: I gave myself enough options!
McIlroy played in the same group as the double main champion Xander Schauffele-Koji released the level 72-I World No 1 Scottie Scheffler, which began its offer for a historic three-time Friday by carded three under 69.
“I feel fine with a circle,” Scheffler said. “I think the golf course is playing nicely. There is a punishment with heavy rough and obviously a lot of danger.
“I felt like I was doing some decent things out and gave myself some chances. I felt like I could discover a few more times. At the end of the day, I did a lot of good things on the track.
“I hit a lot of good generations. I stayed patient outside. I didn’t try to force anything around the golf course. I gave myself enough opportunities to shoot a better result, a little I just couldn’t score a goal, as I would have hoped.”
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