“In a few holes and two shots I realized that sometimes golf is not as simple and as one would like, that it is not as easy to play. I started a little hesitant, with some bad shots. , but on the second nine hole (the first 9 of the course of The Renaissance, in North Berwick, home of the Scottish Open) I’m hitting good drives and good irons on the green and feel more comfortable giving myself more birdie options.
This is the summary analysis of 65 strokes, five par, that he made Rory McIlroy in the first round of competitive play in a month and after a debacle in the last three holes of US Open at Pinehurst‘giving’ as someone claiming success Bryson DeChambeau.
A previously planned trip to Manhattan, including a stroll down the High Lane of New York’s busiest district on the planet, helped Rory turn the page, as he explained himself. “Alone with my thoughts for a few days,” said the Brit. “I’ve always wanted to keep my joys and my sorrows to myself. Solve the bad moments myself. I think it’s a good thing,” added McIlroy in the mixed zone.
The truth is that on his return to the circuit the Northern Irishman, the defending champion of this Scottish Open, who is a true fifth ‘major’, played very solidly, with a lot of head, signing five birdies on his card , an eagle for two bogeys.
Since 2014, the world number two has ten top 5 finishes in the ‘big ones’. Ten times where he was really close to winning another Grand Slam. McIlroy said the other day that the experience at Pinehurst will help him continue to grow. No one has successfully defended the Scottish Open in the previous 46 editions. He was third after the morning shift, tied with the rest of the English Tommy Fleetwoodjust one shot away from the leaders in the clubhouse, the German Kieffer and the Chinese Li. The best Spaniard – he entered at the last minute – was Alex del Rey with 69 (-1).
Other record results were 67 hits by Max Homa, Viktor Hovland and Adam Scott; Wyndham Clark’s 68, Xander Schauffele’s 69, Adrián Otaegui’s 70, Nacho Elvira’s 71 (+1) and Rickie Fowler’s 73.
Source: La Verdad
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