sport news Rory McIlroy cards his worst score in nearly TWO YEARS at Players Championship trends now
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Rory McIlroy is in need of a bounce if he is to survive the cut at the Players Championship and he is sharp enough to understand the irony of such an unfamiliar situation.
It was with considerable frustration that he signed for his worst score in nearly two years on Thursday and then bemoaned the absence of a trusted driver which had become just a little too springy with old age.
No longer able to meet regulations that limit the 'trampoline effect' of a clubface, it was dispatched to a shadowy corner of his home three weeks ago and TaylorMade's replacement contrived to land the world No 3 in all manner of rough spots at Sawgrass in a four-over-par loop of 76.
User error played a role, too, he accepted, but the combination of a misfiring workman and a misbehaving tool is a problem that requires an urgent fix, which goes for both this tournament and the somewhat bigger gathering at Augusta in less than a month.
Given the excellence of his form in the past year, it really would be an inopportune moment for McIlroy to start exploring the outer limits of courses on a
