Rory Mcilroy’s offer for the main consecutive titles has become a battle only to make the cut after an inauguration start in its inauguration in the PGA championship.
Mcilroy arrived as the new Grand Slam Golf champion and prepared to challenge for greater important success in the Quail Hollow Club, where he has won four times on the PGA tour, just to fight as part of the Marquesina group on Thursday morning.
The world no 2 overtown its opening hole, the tenth, but only added one more Birdie through its first round, with three bogeys, including one in its final hole, and a double bogey that carried it stuttering to a 74.
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Mcilroy made double Bogey in Hole 16 in Quail Hollow Duration its inauguration in the PGA Championship
Mcilroy found only four streets outside the tee and lost about two blows in the field with his placement, with the Irish of the north now facing a task costs
“I always feel that Rory is at his best when he has a point to show that he has pointed elbows and is chasing something,” former Captain of the Ryder Cup Paul McGinley He told Sky Sports. “I think that enjoying all the success in the last month, maybe it is not conducive to putting it in that mentality.
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Paul McGinley reacts to the 74 of Mcilroy in the PGA championship and explains what went wrong for the Masters champion
“It is not out of this tournament without a subway: there is five shots behind (Scottie) Scheffler. It is very far behind the leaders, but are they going to continue like this?
“Maybe now that he has had a bad score, that places him behind the eight ball and advances in the next few days.”
What went wrong for Mcilroy?
Mcilroy got up and got off the Green to open with a 10-foot putt Birdie in the tenth par-five, just to load a three-whores bogey to the next and lose an opportunity for four-foot Birdie in Hole 14 of the apple.
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Mcilroy picked up an opportunity in the tenth par-five to begin his major offer with a Birdie
The masters champion recovered from avoiding water outside the 15th Tee to make a two -putts birdie from just outside the Green, but two mogatos the next after a wandering trip saw him take two attempts to play again with the thick game.
Mcilroy hastened along in 18 after pulling another exit blow before more from Meshind in the Fort torque, where he could not get up from Greenside’s bunker, with a boogey in the ninth, his final hole, Geight Geighttt
“He simply did not play very well, driving in particular put him in trouble,” McGinley added. “The driver cost him two shots in 16. From being under the pair during the day and having a rather decent start, it is more about the pair for the day.
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“Now he is the son of him, the things that do not go for him, and continued to lose the streets. A second really poor place in one, which was his tenth hole, took another Bogey and things moved away from then on.
“Heyn no Birdie Seven, just when he reached only an iron in a couple of five, which was his hole 16. He also had a great opportunity in the eighth. Then, simply not in him and did not score too and did not play so well.”
Can Mcilroy continue fighting in Quail Hollow?
Mcilroy had seven blows of the head after the opening day of the Masters, where he claimed the victory of Play-Off on Justin Rose to ensure his first great victory since 2014, everything he will need to turn around with him is him.
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The 36 -year -old has a previous experience of recovering from an excess of plot in Quail Hollow, after having done so in the 2021 Wells Fargo championship, but 34 of the last 35 winters of the PGA championship have six leadership shots later.
“I think it will restart, it is just a matter of whether this tournament has been too fast. McGinley said.” He has spoken a lot about walking on Sir Nick skirt in terms of the European player with the most important victories, that is a great goal for him.
“Hey, being the outstanding player of his time. He has a couple or boys to jump in that sense as well, so there are many goals that will come. I have said it for several years that yes or more or more, and I three three three win.
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In statements to Sky Sports before the PGA championship, Mcilroy suggested that he felt ‘Ligter’ addressing a great victory in the Masters.
“It’s a great agitation, don’t you have it, the last month and a positive agitation? It is in a really happy place. Of course it is, it has won the Grand Slam. It is an achievement of a lifetime for each of these players.
“Second player in 60 years to do so, only the sixth in history, so, of course, it is in a great place. But is that a great place then to restart? Is it in a mentally place to go out and restart? It really is a darker game.”
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