McIlroy’s major championship drought will likely continue after he shoots a 78 at Royal Troon.
Rory McIlroy had a long day for his first round at the British Open on Thursday. TROON, Scotland — An official with the merciless job of coordinating interviews between reticent golfers and curious reporters popped into the tent midafternoon on Thursday with a quick announcement: OnceIt marked an uptick.by whooshing off the premises in a courtesy car, replacing the thousand words he might have spoken with a picture worth all of them.
“The conditions are very difficult in a wind that we haven’t seen so far this week,” he said. “I guess when that happens, you play your practice rounds, you have a strategy that you think is going to help you get around the golf course, but then when you get a wind you haven’t played in, it starts to present different options and you start to think about maybe hitting a few clubs that you haven’t hit in practice.
McIlroy’s 78 became his harshest opening score in a major since the famed 2019 Open in Northern Ireland, when the pressure of a first major in his homeland seemed to weigh on him until the scales said 79. He shot 80 in the first round at the 2018 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills on Long Island , and he shot 78 and 77 to open the two U.S. Opens preceding that.
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