Ardmore: Rory McIlroy was miserable at Merion and he took out his frustrations on his club on No. 11 on Sunday. His first tee shot plopped in the water. He took a drop, then sent another ball into the same creek. McIlroy then jammed the club into the ground and completely twisted the head.
"I think that's what this tournament does to you," he said. "At one point or another, it's got the better of you, and it definitely did this weekend."
He briefly lost his cool, just not his sense of humor. When he was introduced at his news conference as shooting 14 over, he joked, "You didn't have to tell them that part."
He shot a 6-over 76 in the final round....
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08:51 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Ardmore, Pennsylvania: Clouds gave way to peeks of sunshine, squeegees gave way to putters, and the 13th hole gave way to birdies during the first round of the U.S. Open's return to Merion Golf Club on Thursday. Drenching storms caused a 3 1/2-hour delay, halting play less than two hours after it began. When the golfers returned to the course, one thing was evident: a 102-yard hole was easy pickings...
11:50 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Ardmore: Rory McIlroy is one of the few top golfers pleased to see the heavy rain falling at Merion, the site for this week's US Open. While many of his opponents have bemoaned the arrival of the showers and the slower greens and softer fairways, McIlroy's mood perked up when he heard the forecast for more torrential weather. Rather, the Northern Irishman thinks the conditions in Philadelphia could help his...
08:33 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Pennsylvania: Great talent can be a burden as much as a blessing and great expectations weigh on Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy at this week's US Open at Merion in the Philadelphia suburbs. McIlroy, whose resounding wins at the 2011 US Open at Congressional and last year's PGA Championship on Kiawah Island and a climb to the number one ranking cemented him as golf's next prodigy following in the wake of...
01:40 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Ardmore: Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott will play together the opening two rounds of the U.S. Open next week at Merion. For the third straight year, U.S. Open officials have put the top three players in the world ranking in the same group. The U.S. Open disclosed the tee times in a tweet on Friday, with the rest of the draw expected later in the day. The feature...
12:04 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Virginia Water: Francesco Molinari flourished while five of his European Ryder Cup team mates fell flat on their faces as the Italian grabbed the lead after the PGA Championship second round on Friday. Luke Donald, the 2011 and 2012 winner, Rory McIlroy, Ian Poulter, Graeme McDowell and Paul Lawrie all missed the halfway cut after struggling in cold, dank conditions at the European Tour's flagship event. A miserable Wentworth course...
10:06 AM, May 25, 2013
Next week's Memorial tournament at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio will feature one of the season's strongest fields with the world's top six players all taking part in the PGA Tour event hosted by Jack Nicklaus. Top-ranked Tiger Woods will be back to defend the title he claimed by two shots last year while Rory McIlroy (second), Adam Scott (third), 2010 champion Justin Rose (fourth), Brandt Snedeker (fifth) and Luke...
09:34 AM, May 25, 2013
Virginia Water: World number two Rory McIlroy was blown off course by unseasonally cold weather at Wentworth on Thursday, bogeying five of the last six holes to sink to a two-over 74 in the PGA Championship first round. The 24-year-old Northern Irishman made an encouraging start to the European Tour's flagship event and was three-under after 12 holes but a series of late blunders meant he walked off the 18th...
10:55 PM, May 23, 2013
Florida, USA: Tiger Woods was nine shots out of the lead, not the best position at The Players Championship, especially since he had not even started his round. Perhaps the bigger surprise was the guy who posted the record-tying round Thursday. Roberto Castro had only played the TPC Sawgrass in a practice round. He made a debut he won't soon forget. There was the 9-iron to a foot on the...
08:52 AM, May 10, 2013
Ponte Vedra Beach: Rory McIlroy won two major championships at age 23. He was the youngest player since Tiger Woods to reach No. 1 in the world. He was won the money titles on the PGA Tour and European Tour in the same season. Now if he can just break par on the TPC at Sawgrass. Or at least make it to the weekend. McIlroy keeps showing signs that his...
08:54 PM, May 09, 2013
Charlotte: World number two Rory McIlroy, back at the scene of his first PGA Tour win, fired a five-under 67 at Quail Hollow on Thursday for a seven-way share of the first-round lead in the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Northern Irishman was joined atop the leaderboard by Americans Nick Watney, Ryan Moore, Robert Garrigus, Daniel Summerhays, Derek Ernst and Monday qualifier Nate Smith. Another six players...
09:05 AM, May 03, 2013
Adam Scott has climbed to a joint career-high number three in the world rankings following his dramatic Masters victory on Sunday. Scott became the first Australian to win at Augusta after sinking a 15-foot birdie putt on the second extra hole to clinch a playoff victory over Angel Cabrera. He edged past the Argentine to claim the green jacket after the pair had finished locked together on nine-under-par 279 after...
09:45 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Augusta: Golf fans have drooled in anticipation of a one-two rivalry between Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, but the mop-topped Northern Irishman said on Tuesday that talk was premature. "I don't see myself a rival to Tiger or to anyone," McIlroy said on Tuesday before a practice round at Augusta National ahead of Thursday's opening round of the Masters. McIlroy, proclaiming himself 100 percent comfortable with his golf swing and...
03:23 AM, Apr 10, 2013
San Antonio: Martin Laird has spent the last six months on the driving range looking for answers to his struggling game. The Scottish golfer finally found what he was looking for, and then some on Sunday - winning the Texas Open with a final-round 9-under par 63 to overcome a resurgent Rory McIlroy and some of the world's best along the way. Laird, who entered the week 161st on the...
08:08 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Double US Open champion Curtis Strange has hit out at Nick Faldo and Johnny Miller for criticising world number two Rory McIlroy's recent switch of club manufacturers. McIlroy ditched his Titleist equipment at the start of the year but Strange believes the 23-year-old Northern Irishman's slump in form is nothing to do with the change he has made. "I don't think clubs have anything to do with it at all,"...
07:11 PM, Apr 06, 2013
San Antonio: Rory McIlroy matched the low round of the day with a 5-under par 67 and moved within three shots of the lead at the Texas Open on Friday, continuing his surge toward next week's Masters. The world's No. 2 golfer, who decided to play in the tournament late last week, had seven birdies - including his final three holes - and overcame a bogey on No. 9 after...
08:36 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Points, who finished at 16-under 272, picked up his second PGA Tour victory. ...
08:49 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Points, who had struggled with seven missed cuts from nine events for the season, shrugged off the dismal form with nine birdies and a solitary bogey in the opening round. ...
09:08 AM, Mar 29, 2013
Haas collected birdies at 12 and 13 before adding an eagle at the par-five 16th to reach the turn at four-under. ...
06:00 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Rory McIlroy said his confidence was returning from its lowest point ever after shooting a one-under round of 71 at the WGC-Cadillac Championship. ...
10:48 AM, Mar 10, 2013
