Augusta, Georgia – Rory McILroy has not waste time out of the Augusta National Golf Club Thursday afternoon. After A brutal finish in an impressive opening round to a master It feels like having More pressure on him than mostIt is easy to understand why.
After having made a pair of double bogeys in his last four holes of the day – go from three strokes of the advance to seven – McILroy just wanted to get out of there. He passed right in front of the journalists after turning in his dashboard and returned home. With the day he had, he wanted to relax and spend time with his 4 -year -old daughter, Poppy.
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“Once I left the property last night, I just tried to leave what had happened here,” McILroy said on Friday. “I rushed here to go home to see Poppy before bed. So it was a bit pleasant to see her before she fell asleep.… I feel like I’ve done a good work of reset. ”
Obviously, it worked for him. A day withdrawn from The finish that apparently put it out of discord During another major championship, McILroy is suddenly back near the top of the ranking. Friday, McILroy pulled a 68 without Bogey, which only made him two shots by leader Justin Rose in the middle of the Masters.
McILroy, after taking 1 under his first nine, took off after going around and absolutely dominated Amen Corner. He did two straight forces to open his nine backs, then struck a wild approach from pine straw in the 13th by 5. McILroy launched this ball and landed it just 10 feet from the cup.
While he was initially struck with a little panic just after contacting the ball – “When the ball was in the air, I said to myself:” You idiot, what did you do? “” He said-it left him an easy putt eagle.
This eagle forced the operators of the dashboard seated above the starting box n ° 14 to finally exchange the name of McILroy in the box for the first time all day.
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“I made a little chance with this second blow, but I was nice to enjoy it,” he said.
McILroy made a bit more the rest of the path, in the 15th par-5 where he made one of his doubles the day before.
“I was so frustrated last night because I was playing so well, and you can make these big numbers from nowhere on this golf course, just like the most benign position,” said McILroy.
“So it was a good reminder. It was a good reminder last night that you only have to have your mind on this subject on each golf coup.”
Although he has now bounded and played 34 good golf holes, McILroy quickly stressed that he was only at the median point of the tournament when he sat down after his round on Friday afternoon. He still has a long way to go to win what would not only be his first green jacket in a career, but would also end the Grand Colem in a career and put an end to his major championship drought which dates back to 2014.
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There are many other big names with him in the ranking capable of winning the green jacket too. Bryson Dechambeau jumped at 7-sous to enter second position, and Scottie Scheffler, the best, just hides a few strokes behind them.
A tripper like McILroy crossed Thursday would have easily derailed all week in eastern Georgia. For some in the field, it would have been inevitable.
But McILroy, after doing the other side, is again able to win on the largest golf scene. That's all he could have asked for.
“I just saved the belief that I have in myself and the conviction that I am as resilient as anyone there,” said McILroy. “Once again, as if I was really proud of the resilience that I was the way throughout my career, and I think that today was just another example of that.”
Now comes the difficult part.
