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O One day the reigning champion, Jordan Spieth, describes it as "about as benign as you go out here" after shooting 65 for a 54-hole advance shot, Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood They have not managed to match their Friday heroism but they are not quite finished yet.
Sunday will be a completely different battlefield, with winds of 20 mph, and the two local heroes left the course on Saturday night. "I would have felt a few better shots closer," said McIlroy. "But I have to have a chance, with stronger winds coming in. I left with a few longer putts today, I was not particularly happy with my driving on Thursday but I felt much better today. I want to have the driver in my hand tomorrow.Make as many birdies, maybe not as many mistakes. "
Inevitably, they came up with the nifty Fleetwood Mac tabloid – Tommy's Liverpool, Rory County Down They were not in perfect harmony, but they found some rhythm here and there
They were not paired, but they were grouped near the bottom of the board McIlroy was right in front, alongside young American Xander Schauffele, while Fleetwood had American veteran Pat Perez in the second group of the day, which was a high-performance foursome and, at various stages, they all shook his head.
McIlroy had his first fights, firing a shot at the 4th, before immediately repairing the damage, exploding in a bunker on the 6th Come back to four sous, and catch another birdie at 7.
He then crunched a pilot over 350 yards but could not cash. A long and strong birdie putt at 10 inches too. He was not so far from beating his blues on the green.
He opened his shoulders on the 11th, too, smothered his little token but made a birdie to go under six. The shoulder muscles received another workout on the 12th, while his huge push was rolling at 343 yards, and he was seriously irritated when he made a boguey of a promising position, his putter being cold again. He followed with a really horrible birdie attempt at 13 and seemed to have lost concentration under pressure.
His drive on 14 was estimated at 408 yards, the longest of the day in virtually windless conditions, bringing a five-in-a-row clutch. shots at 1,848 meters; phenomenal striking on any course, with or without wind. The reward was a birdie – which would have been an eagle if the ball had not made a U-turn on the edge of the hole – to return to six sous, three behind Spieth at that time. He was on a good footing, cutting another shot of his total on 15 to own fourth place, two shots from his playmate, Schauffele, who had jumped to nine with Spieth.
A blip at 16 delivered a third Bogey for the day, and McIlroy seemed distinctly impressed with someone in the gallery who disrupted his set-up before his putt. He is assured of a solid by 17 years old. A rotten bounce in a fairway bunker did him no favor at 18, and he found rough ugly green on the side of a mound in front of the gallery with an ambitious sand shot. A chip strewn in thick grass left him with a long par put when his ball rolled into a mocking valley. He made boguey
Fleetwood, who shot 65 on Friday, two short of his own course record, also had a mixed day of discords and wan smiles.
He resumed where he stopped, with a birdie on the 2nd, but for a long time, he did not have the same gleam in his eyes. He had to sneak out of a fairway bunker on the 6th and putt by slipped by. He could have done better with a gettable birdie putt on the 10th before tackling one to 11.
A double bogey at age 12, pushing him to four cents, was the kind of setback that can destroy a round while it's getting closer to probably the toughest closing game of golf. On Friday, he picked up two birdies in the last six holes. On the thirteenth 13, he improvised with a wedge cut on top of the green – which would not have pleased the greenkeeper if he had destroyed his surface – to go further. rather than an intrusion. But he could not avoid another bogey and slipped to a penny and a tie for the 20th on the board.
Struggling for consistency, he was grateful for a birdie at age 14, to return in sight of leaders.
he found inspiration to do the same on 15. Birdies back-to-back gave him a place in the top 10.
The three closing holes had dropped just 23 birdies all the day (as well as an eagle for Zander Lombard on the last). A 214-yard approach shot in a mini-gust of 17 brought a smile to his face – which widened when he sealed the birdie to go five sous. A strong peer ended a difficult day
"Disappointed", that is how he described it. "I played really well, I can not say that I drove it well, made a mess of a couple of tee shots, some putts come in and it's a good better day, walking down 18, I wanted to be a closer, if you're there or pretty much, you're never quite outside of that. "
Like Fleetwood Mac l & 39 Finally, Tommy and Rory must now follow their own path.
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