Rory McIlroy harm his decrease again earlier than arriving at East Lake for the FedEx Cup finale, dangerous timing for an harm as he tries to chase an $18 million bonus on the Tour Championship with the Ryder Cup a month away.
McIlroy didn’t hit balls and was restricted to about 20 photographs on the vary earlier than deciding to play the opening spherical. He’s the No. 3 seed, which means he began the Tour Championship at 7-under par, three behind top-seeded Scottie Scheffler.
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He didn’t point out the harm to the decrease proper aspect of his again throughout his pre-tournament press convention.
McIlroy was informed upon teeing off that he may get remedy in the course of the spherical supplied it didn’t trigger undue delay. His bodily therapist walked exterior the ropes on the entrance 9, however McIlroy indicated that he didn’t want him.
However regardless of the extent of the harm, its impact was apparent. McIlroy not often completed his swing and twice dropped the membership after following by means of. He was in a position to crouch when studying putts or stick a tee within the floor.
McIlroy made his first birdie on the tenth gap, solely to overlook lengthy and left in gnarly tough on the par-3 eleventh for one more bogey that dropped him to 2 over for the day, eight behind Scheffler.
If he had been to withdraw, he would acquire a $500,000 bonus. The winner of the FedEx Cup will get $18 million. McIlroy, the one three-time winner, has come from behind in every of his FedEx Cup titles.
He’s to play the Irish Open in two weeks, adopted by the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth on the European tour. The Ryder Cup is the week of Sept. 25 to Oct. 1 at Marco Simone exterior Rome.