Rory McIlroy wasn’t joyful along with his tee shot on No. 17 on Friday — and he let his fairway wooden comprehend it.
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Tensions look like effervescent over on the BMW Championship at Fort Pines Golf Membership in Colorado.
Scottie Scheffler made headlines for an uncharacteristically indignant outburst after misjudging a wedge shot on Friday, and Rory McIlroy has his personal frustrations manifest in bodily type, leading to a membership toss into the water.
On the par-5 seventeenth gap at Fort Pines, which requires a carry over water straight in entrance of the tee, McIlroy elected to hit a fairway wooden. The shot traveled 294 yards into the tough proper of the golf green. As two voices known as out “Fore proper!” McIlroy uncoiled from his end place and coolly tossed his membership proper into the water, creating a visual splash.
Whereas merely lacking the golf green off the tee doesn’t appear to be a punishable offense for McIlroy’s 3-wood, the printed crew offered some context. McIlroy has simply three-putted for bogey from 45 ft on the earlier gap, the par-3 sixteenth — his second bogey of the day. And on No. 17, a reachable par-5, hitting a drive into the tough isn’t preferrred if a participant needs a superb have a look at birdie or higher.
Like Scheffler, whose audible outburst on Friday adopted a water ball and a misjudged wedge from the drop zone, there was a couple of think about play for McIlroy’s membership toss into the water.
Fortunately for McIlroy, the membership didn’t totally submerge and was retrievable on the water’s edge. After choosing up his tee, McIlroy calmly collected the membership and handed it to his caddie. He managed to par the outlet, too.
At three below par total, McIlroy is at present T15 on the BMW Championship’s midway level, and if his place doesn’t enhance over the subsequent two rounds, he’s at present projected to drop from No. 5 to No. 8 within the FedEx Cup factors standings headed into subsequent week’s Tour Championship at East Lake.
