Rory McIlroy likely to call it a day at the 93rd PGA Championship owing to his injury
For the moment, Rory McIlroy has decided to stay on course at the 93rd PGA Championship, despite of his painful injury that he incurred in the opening round of the event yesterday. With a three-over, 73 against an even-par on the opening day,
McIlroy safely made it to the third round of the championship, amidst huge uproar from the crowd.
The Ulsterman is now poised at three-over on the aggregate, a staggering ten shots behind the lead and will be needing some exceptional display to post his second major victory for the year, something which seems quite unlikely now.
“I feel as if there’s a decent one out there tomorrow, a 66 or a 65, get myself back into red numbers and maybe shoot something similar on Sunday and see where that leaves me,” he said.
The Ulsterman made a wrong decision to go after a low-lie aggressively, subsequently injuring his right wrist to what doctors later described as a temporary inflation but suggested rest for the weekend. McIlory, on the contrary, decided to go after the title
in face of the lingering injury and has done well so far to make the cut in the last major of the year. Especially in view of the fact that Tiger Woods and defending champion Martin Kaymer both failed to make it through.
But things will not be any easier for the 22-year-old Irishman, considering the fact that his right elbow is still giving him pain and the McIlroy was seen shaking hands with the rest of the players with his left hand on Friday.
“My speed has been off all week, especially the last couple of days. Maybe a little bit,” he said of the disadvantage he had been facing because of a tied up wrist and elbow. “I’m worried about it because I don’t feel as if I can’t play to the best of my
abilities with it.”
McIlroy remained even-par on the second day, carding three birdies against three bogeys but fell in for a dreadful double-bogey at the 17th to drop down the leaderboard.
McIlroy, however is likely to call it a day at the championship and would probably chose to walk away keeping in view that a victory from this stage onwards is definitely something which will not happen. The reigning US Open champion was hoping to clinch
his second major title on his favourtite PGA Tour courses where he has posted phenomenal runs in past two years. His performance at the Open Championship last month, was in stark contrast to his scorecard at the US Open and he expressed his despise for the
windy Links courses later on, inciting a heated debate on the issue.
His countrymen Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke both have failed to make the cut with their disappointing performances at the Atlanta Athletic Club.
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