‘Irritated’ Rory Mcilroy Questions of the rules of officials’ ‘Sense Common’

Rory Mcilroy Tour Green-Jacket Victory win is still humbly.

About six weeks after The reign of the champion master returned to his homeland for Championship In Portrush, northern Ireland-where he was greeted as a Roman triumphant general coming home from Lufta-Mcilroy this week is enjoying more worship about a three-hour south car in K club, the Dublin area of ​​Irish Open.

K Club has special meaning for mcilroy. As 17-year-olds he followed Ryder cup In the lower resort with his father Gerry and watched Europe blow the doors by Americans in a nine -point circle. A decade later, Mcilroy returned to K Club for Irish Open and won with three, representing what is still his only Irish open title. Following his first opening one-nine 71 Thursday, Mcilroy turned some of his love in his flock, at a city-style Q&A session with fans in which he wore the green jacket and sat next to the trophies of the other three diplomas. Good vibrations around.

Well, almost around.

That’s because the Mcilroy opening round did not go exactly to plan. The K club crowds have been great this week, and it is not surprising that they were especially swollen about the Mcilroy group; He left the 10th Tee on 1 afternoon with local time with Thriston Lawrence of South Africa and Kristoffer Reitan, Norway. Fans, reporters, cameras crews, different hangers. As is often the case with Marquee groups, the scene was a little of a circus, which led to a slow pace of play.

Dp Tour World Officials took notes and – fairly or not – placed the Mcilroy group at the “Very Early” o’clock in their round, Mcilroy reporters told. “And then the first official left and then we settled in hours for the last three holes from another.”

“I was frustrated some last holes because I felt a little hasty,” he said.

Showed. In the 7th PAR-4 hole, Mcilroy flew green and made Bogey. In par-3 8, again, which led to another Bogey. He closed with a principle at 9 to shoot 71, five of the early superiority separated by three players.

“I feel like it always happens,” Mcilroy said about the rhythm warning, “and I don’t think they use some kind of common sense in terms of, of course, we will lose the ground because we will have to wait for crowds and wait in the two camera crews that are there. They have to give us a little away.

As is the case in PGA Tour, slow play warnings in the World Tour of the DP are far more common than current slow sentences. In one X debate About the rhythm of the game last year, David Howell, a former DP player who is now chairman of the tour tournament committee, wrote: “If you are ignorant enough to ignore all the slow rules, you can create a two-stroke this year at the World DP in Tour. We make the game slow.” He went on: “2 bad times within a week take you a penalty with a stroke, if 1 of those violations was over 80 seconds for 1 to play or 70 seconds if game 2 which is considered an est (excessive shot), then 2 violations would say the player includes a two-stroke penalty.

Mcilroy’s flu is more nuanced, however, because he and his game partners were dealing with a much more messy and chaotic environment than the rest of the field. Should permissions be made in these situations, or should officials at least appear on the other side? Mcilroy seems to think so.

About the warnings of slow games, he said, “has happened to me a lot earlier in these kinds of big groups when I go back to Europe and play, and I just allow it to fast me. Whenever I return to this tournament or I play in some of them (No.) 1, 3 groups, we are always located in the hour for the same reason.

Mcilroy played in the first two rounds that week no. 1 Scottie Scheffler and World no. 3 Xander Schauffle. Mcilroy opened 67-68, then won the title after defeating JJ Spaun in a play off.