After three holes of his final round, having botched yet another wedge, Rory McIlroy snapped. Or to put it in his words: ‘Just go home Rory, f****** hell.’
To be fair, he might have saved himself some of the stress had he decided to fire up the jet the previous evening, when the real unravelling of his US Open challenge occurred.
There is no shame in taking a beating at Shinnecock Hills when the wind is up, but when McIlroy reviews this week he will immediately zero in on Saturday’s back nine, when he plummeted from a share of fourth on two
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