McIlroy (66), leader in Scotland, remains on track for the British

Rory McIlroy34 years old and No. 3 in the world, is currently the great hero of Scottish Open both on the field and in the press room. After opening his participation on Thursday with a 64 shot, 3rd, three shots behind the leader, the South Korean byeong hun an (61), the Northern Irishman launched some explosive statements about LIV Golf.

McIlroy said he would rather retire than join the millionaire and controversial arab super league, whose negotiations on the American and European circuits have been under discussion since an agreement between all parties was announced last month. “If LIV Golf is the last place to play golf at landoh, I’m going to retire. That’s how I feel,” Rory said.

Without mincing words in front of the reporters, McIlroy (66 with five birdies and a bogey) continued this Friday also inspired by the par 70 of The Renaissance Clubin North Berwickto the point of standing as the new solo leader with a stroke ahead of An (70), Tyrrell Hatton (62) and Tom Kim (65).

“I really hit the ball from the tee to the green. I gave myself a lot of chances and honestly I feel like this was probably the worst 4 under I could get. I knew I played well from the tee to the green to hold there, so I’m totally confident going into the weekend no matter what the weather throws at us,” McIlroy said. The start of the day on Saturday was brought forward due to the forecast of rain.

McIlroy arrives in Scotland with five consecutive top-10 finishes, including his 7th place in PGA Championship and the 2nd in US Open. Rory has four Grand Slam titles to his credit, but it has been nine years since the last one and he will be looking to end that drought in the British, where he already reigned in 2014.

With nine birdies and one bogey, Hatton (62) is one stroke away from equaling An’s course record and climbing into the noble zone of the table, where he is also world number 1, scottie schefflerauthor of five birdies without a miss to share 7th place Nicolai Hojgaard (63) and Padraig Harrington (66), gave Scotland a war at 51. The three were within three shots of McIlroy.

However, the blow of the day was delivered by the Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts40 years old and European vice-captain of Ryder Cupwho took the first hole-in-one of his professional career on the 14th hole, from 159 meters.

🚨 HOLE-IN-ONE 🚨@RyderCupEurope second captain, @Coelsss ace the 14th!#GenesisScottishOpen | #RolexSeries pic.twitter.com/4jEBBBTmvF

—DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) July 14, 2023

“>

gg.didomi.doWhenConsent(!window.didomiBypass, ‘c:twitterwi-wUmBnnKy’, function () {
var x = document.createElement(‘script’);
x.setAttribute(“type”,”text/javascript”);
x.setAttribute(“src”, “//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”);
x.setAttribute(“charset”, “utf-8”);
$(“.twitter-tweet”).closest( “span” ).append(x);
});

As for the Spaniards Jorge Campillo (68) and adri arnaus (69) pass the hair cut, but Rafael Cabrera (70), Adrian Otaegui (71) and Pablo Larrazabal (72) was left at the end of the week, like the American patrick cantley (67), the world number 4.

Scottish Open

2nd day

Par 70
​130 Rory McIlroy (Irl.N.) 64-66
​131 Tyrrell Hatton (Eng) 69-62
Tom Kim (CdS) 66-65
Byeong Hun An (CdS) 61-70
​132 Brian Harman (USA) 67-65
Sam Burns (USA) 67-65
​133 Scottie Scheffler (USA) 68-65
Nicolai Hojgaard (Also) 70-63
Padraig Harrington (Irl) 67-66
…
​136 Xander Schauffele (USA/29th) 70-66
Viktor Hovland (North) 73-63
​137 Justin Thomas (USA/45th) 68-69
​138 Jorge Campillo (ESP/59º) 70-68
Adri Arnaus (ESP) 69-69
They didn’t make the cut
​139 Rafael Cabrera (ESP) 69-70
Patrick Cantlay (USA) 72-67
​142 Pablo Larrazábal (ESP) 70-72
Adrian Otaegui (ESP) 71-71