Regardless of being wayward off the tee for many of the day, Rory McIlroy put collectively a 5-under 67 on Thursday and sits one stroke off the lead after the primary spherical at The Gamers.
McIlroy missed an uncharacteristic 10 fairways, rating 81st among the many 144-man area in strokes gained off the tee. Normally his robust go well with, McIlroy’s driver was in all places. However as a rule, he missed his tee pictures to the appropriate.
“I definitely didn’t drive it the way in which I needed to. Didn’t hit it in as many fairways as I’d have preferred. Yeah, I feel with the greens being so receptive, you may get away with it slightly bit. I’m not going to have the ability to get away with it for the remainder of the week. Kind of rode my luck on the market slightly bit,” McIlroy stated.
“However I’m making an attempt to hit this minimize shot into play. Lacking proper off the tee right here on any gap is method higher than lacking left. Simply type of hitting this minimize type of up into the wind, and clearly you don’t must hit it too.”
He closed with one other proper miss on the 18th fairway, however hit a stunning restoration shot from the pine straw that led to his seventh and last birdie of the day.
Camilo Villegas, J.J. Spaun, and 2009 U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover maintain the 18-hole lead at 6-under par.
The Gamers Championship Spherical 2 Tee Instances (ET):
* — tenth gap begin
7:40 a.m. — Henrik Norlander, Ricky Castillo, Ben Kohles
7:40 a.m.* — Doug Ghim, Ryan Fox, Sami Valimaki
7:51 a.m. — Eric Cole, Ben Griffin, Max Greyserman
7:51 a.m.* — Andrew Putnam, Charley Hoffman, Denny McCarthy
8:02 a.m. — J.J. Spaun, Jacob Bridgeman, Chandler Phillips
8:02 a.m.* — Daniel Berger, Min Woo Lee, Rasmus Højgaard
8:13 a.m. — Emiliano Grillo, Byeong Hun An, Adam Schenk
8:13 a.m.* — Harris English, Billy Horschel, Justin Rose
8:24 a.m. — Taylor Pendrith, Peter Malnati, Kurt Kitayama
8:24 a.m.* — Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele
8:35 a.m. — Brice Garnett, Matthieu Pavon, Camilo Villegas
8:35 a.m.* — Collin Morikawa, Adam Scott, Tommy Fleetwood
8:46 a.m. — Austin Eckroat, Jake Knapp, Taylor Moore
8:46 a.m.* — Keegan Bradley, Rickie Fowler, Patrick Cantlay
8:57 a.m. — Nico Echavarria, Kevin Yu, Erik van Rooyen
8:57 a.m.* — Nick Dunlap, Akshay Bhatia, Tom Kim
9:08 a.m. — Karl Vilips, Sam Burns, Cameron Younger
9:08 a.m.* — Harry Corridor, Chris Gotterup, Si Woo Kim
9:19 a.m. — Ok.H. Lee, Carson Younger, Patrick Fishburn
9:19 a.m.* — Jhonattan Vegas, Matt Kuchar, Adam Hadwin
9:30 a.m. — Trey Mullinax, Ryo Hisatsune, Laurie Canter
9:30 a.m.* — Sam Ryder, Greyson Sigg, Mac Meissner
9:41 a.m. — Kris Ventura, Kevin Roy, Jackson Suber
9:41 a.m.* — Max McGreevy, Ryan Gerard, Frankie Capan III
12:45 p.m. — Lanto Griffin, Andrew Novak, David Lipsky
12:45 p.m.* — Chad Ramey, C.T. Pan, Vince Whaley
12:56 p.m. — Keith Mitchell, Justin Decrease, Nicolai Højgaard
12:56 p.m.* — Joel Dahmen, Patrick Rodgers, Chan Kim
1:07 p.m. — Michael Kim, Alex Smalley, Sam Stevens
1:07 p.m.* — Beau Hossler, Mark Hubbard, Ben Silverman
1:18 p.m. — Maverick McNealy, Brian Harman, Tony Finau
1:18 p.m.* — Rafael Campos, Davis Riley, Gary Woodland
1:29 p.m. — Ludvig Åberg, Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Thomas
1:29 p.m.* — Joe Highsmith, Brian Campbell, Matt McCarty
1:40 p.m. — Russell Henley, Shane Lowry, Viktor Hovland
1:40 p.m.* — Patton Kizzire, Lucas Glover, Corey Conners
1:51 p.m. — Wyndham Clark, Danny Walker, Jordan Spieth
1:51 p.m.* — Sahith Theegala, Matt Fitzpatrick, Will Zalatoris
2:02 p.m. — Thomas Detry, Sepp Straka, Nick Taylor
2:02 p.m.* — Davis Thompson, Stephan Jaeger, Tom Hoge
2:13 p.m. — J.T. Poston, Seamus Energy, Mackenzie Hughes
2:13 p.m.* — Aaron Rai, Cam Davis, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
2:24 p.m. — Chris Kirk, Luke Listing, Adam Svensson
2:24 p.m.* — Robert MacIntyre, Max Hona, Sungjae Im
2:35 p.m. — Bud Cauley, Matti Schmid, David Skinns
2:35 p.m.* — Nate Lashley, Will Gordon, Rico Hoey
2:46 p.m. — Hayden Springer, Jesper Svensson, Will Chandler
2:46 p.m.* — Alejandro Tosti, Isaiah Salinda, Aldrich Potgieter
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