by ATLANTA – Rory McILroy had the chance of the Irish for his part at 18 at the East Lake Golf Club in the first round of the Tour championship.
After finding a bunker short from green in Par-5, McILroy, originally from Northern Ireland, pale his 39-meter bunker in the stands behind the green and obtained the most generous rebounds. His bullet found himself on the green and stopped at 17 feet under the hole and he drove in the putt for the most unlikely the birdies to conclude a round of 4-mine 66.
What did McILroy think when the ball exploded on green?
“Oh, no, roughly,” he said. “I’m a little thin, I came out a little faster than I wanted, but at that time, you just hope that something will happen. All TIO lovers will love this one on Twitter tonight.”
Indeed, this could have been the most blatant example of a temporary real estate object for the benefit of a player, but it also arrived at a time the most opportune, because the rules of the rules were about to blow the horn to suspend the game because of the bad weather which was going to hit the area.
“Quite lucky at the end,” said McILroy. “I also think that if it had not fallen and that we had to fall, we might not have finished, so lucky of a lot of different ways, lucky for the score and lucky we have made.”
Scottie Scheffler, who pulled 63 years and dragged Russell Henley (61) by two strokes, was amazed by the good fortune of McILroy.
“I have never rooted so hard so that someone’s ball come back, apart from my partner in a team event,” he said. “Because we are walking around 18 years old and Bones told us that they were going to blow at any second, so I watch his ball steal towards the gallery. I say to myself:” Oh, my God, we have no way to finish this thing “, so I was relieved when I saw him come back to the green.”
As the proverb says, it is better to be lucky than good.
