In this mood, McIlroy is enthralling to watch. The chip nearly went in for three, but I wasn’t going to be greedy.” I thought if I could get it into the far trap I would get a good result, make a four. But I felt if I got enough of a descending blow on it, it would sort of hop up and give it a bit of top-spin. “ I had a similar shot in Boston a couple of years ago playing with Tiger, and the ball went straight behind me into the water and I had to go back into the drop zone. “The ball was on the rock, and Harry was pleading with me not to hit it,” McIlroy said. McIlroy found a horrific lie on the edge of the water hazard, and caddie Harry Diamond was begging him to take a drop and ultimately accept a double-bogey.
I can sort of live with myself if I take shots on and they don’t come off because at least I’m giving myself the best chance.” I’d rather lose trying to win than lose like trying to play defensively, and I’ve learnt that the hard way over the years. “I’ve never really enjoyed hitting it to 40 feet and trying to two-putt,” McIlroy said after moving to 14 under. That slip-up left him unbowed and determined to remain aggressive. He began the day one shot off the pace after double-bogeying the 18th on Friday. Yet more than satisfying a bank manager who must have long been giggling themselves silly, this would justify the 32-year-old’s conviction that his game is returning to its best.Įverything about his third-round 67 suggested that the 32-year-old is primed for a hat-trick of DP World crowns. The $3 million cheque would be McIlroy’s biggest payday for an individual week. With respect to Sin City, this will feel rather more like hitting the jackpot. On Sunday in Dubai in the final round of the DP World Tour Championship, the Northern Irishman will attempt to convert his one-shot advantage and so follow up last month’s Las Vegas triumph. It is not the seven-year-itch Rory McIlroy most yearns to alleviate, but he has not lifted back-to-back trophies since 2014, when he won his two most recent majors and a World Golf Championship in that magical three-event stretch.
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