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Rory McIlroy’s nightmare Open round has silver lining after missing cut


Despite missing the cut at Royal Troon on Friday, four-time major winner Rory McIlroy can look back at his Open Championship triumph in 2014 as a source of inspiration

Rory McIlroy had a disastrous outing at Royal Troon(Photo by David Cannon/R&A via Getty Images)

Rory McIlroy posted one of his worst outings at Royal Troon in his illustrious career – but it’s not all doom and gloom for the star.

After two rounds, the Northern Irishman was 11-over-par and missed the cut, emphasising how turbulent the last couple months were, starting with his disastrous US Open finish. McIlroy ended one shot better than his previous worst Open showing back in 2013.




His poor outing at the Open Championship could have been predicted. The 35-year-old finished the first round seven-over-par, showing how much ground he had to make up. Despite how much he wanted to try and stave off disappointment, there was no stopping what was bound to happen.

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After his round, McIlroy spoke with Sky Sports about his outing, going into great detail to outline just what went wrong at Royal Troon. “Yeah, I mean I’ve had 14 holes to sort of deal with everything that I’ve been feeling so after that, I resigned myself to the fact that I wouldn’t be here for the weekend,” McIlroy admitted.

Obviously, that four-hole stretch there at the start of the round was unfortunate, in the worst of the wind and then you know, we sort of had the wind die on a little bit for us on that back nine and it became a lot more manageable for me. But, I guess, over the course of the two days, the conditions got the better of me.”

McIlroy’s outing could be best summarised in one exchange. While walking to the green at No. 16, he attempted to twirl his club in the air to let out his frustration and instead caught himself in the face.

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