Rory Mcilroy left for a catastrophic start Sunday.
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STILL Rory Mcilroy Sleep on Saturday evening, his early Sunday afternoon were a nightmare.
After a 66th round that placed him on the eve of history, two shots in the lead and a master’s victory left the Grand Slam career, Mcilroy had said all the right things. He would stay within himself in what he was certain would be a last round of nerve. He would stay inside a bubble of himself as he played alongside Bryson dechambeauthe man who would rip his heart in the past year We open.
So much for the bubble. Like this, she exploded.
End in the last pairing of the day, at 2:30 pm with local time, Mcilroy pushed his increasingly easier opening machine. Golf is an inch game. Call that yard. The ball was just a few meters from finding the short grass. On the contrary, it was placed in a hard stretch on a steep road bunker.
Dechambeau followed by the connection of a 3 wood wood to the pine straw, but it left it with a punch in green, a benign position compared to that of Mcilroy, which had no choice but to get a tired of sand club.
Mcilroy plays rapidly. But what happened later seemed to go into a turbulence. Out of the 70 yard, his third blow was placed on the collar after Pin. There remained a tough party, which Mcilroy, after withdrawing his initial address, ran beyond the cup. He was still out of Dechambeau, who had played a resourceful chip for his third party.
For Mcilroy, everything had the creation of a bad dream. But it was true. His bad offer went begging, a 6 terrifying on the score card.
And then, in a wild reproduction of the lid of the foot, he would do in Pinehurst to catch the US Open Open, Dechambeau pulled into his first.
A hole down, and the Mcilroy lead was gone.
It was still early. But you had to ask yourself: would he be able to mcilroy respond to the alarm?
