Rory skips ball off cart path, through sand, saves par
"You've got to be kidding me... Wow!"Rory gets creative with his approach on 10 #PGAChamp pic.twitter.com/xqaF7Vz5Df— PGA of America (@PGA) August 11, 2017CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Rory McIlroy started his second round Friday with a most unorthodox par thanks to a creative play off a Quail Hollow cart path.McIlroy's tee shot missed the fairway to the right at the par-5 10th, and his second shot rolled down a service road that leads to a low area between the 11th tee and fairway.When he took relief from the path, he was left with a window and a cement ramp back to the 10th green. So he took out a 6-iron, punched his ball into the cart path, skipped it through a greenside bunker, and had it trundle across the putting surface into the rough.
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"It was really the only option I had," he said. "I dropped it in a pretty bad lie, so I couldn't carry it over the cart path. So I hit a 6-iron. Just said, 'OK, I'll bounce it up the cart path and see where this goes."I was just trying to get it in the bunker, and luckily I hit it with enough speed, and it got up and out of there."McIlroy proceeded to nestle his follow-up chip to 2 feet and clean up for his five."That could have been a six or a seven quite easily," he said. "So to actually get away with a five, I actually felt pretty good about myself going to the next tee."The Ulsterman went on to play the rest of his opening nine a bogey-free 1 under before adding four bogeys and two birdies on his home half for a Friday 73.He'll enter the weekend 2 over for the championship.
McIlroy did bounce it off the path, but the ball scurried through the bunker and ran all the way to the back fringe. Skips it 60 yards up a cart path, in and out of bunker to fringe. 5 all the
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In this major edition of "pars the hard way," Rory McIlroy put on a show during his opening hole on Friday at the PGA Championship. Starting his second round on Quail Hollow's par-5 10th, the two-time PGA Champion found the right rough off the tee, and only went more right from there.
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Rory McIlroy started off his second round Friday with a most unorthodox par thanks to a creative play off a Quail Hollow cart Rory skips ball off cart path, through sand, saves par. By Nick Menta.
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I got hit once. Playing the first hole was walking down the cart path and the 18th hole plays up the other way. Guy tees off, ball bounces right in front of me on the cart path, takes a hard funny hop and shoots right into my chest. When the guy walked up he didn't believe me, thought I was joking.
a ball skips through a bunker and lands outside of the sand trap. Player must make net par or better. 1 Point player's ball hits the cart path .
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Rory McIlroy finished with a 1-over par 73, bringing it back from 3-over at one point, but he looks as uncomfortable as someone in an itchy shirt. like a miracle shot off the cart path 35
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