Dubai Desert Classic R1: Rory McIlroy tumbles out of lead after sloppy finish
Unfortunately for the four-time major champion, his back nine told a completely different story, coming back in 38 with four bogeys, three of which came in the last four holes.
McIlroy trails by four strokes after day one with four players in a tie for the lead.
China’s Haotong Li hit the front early with a 5-under 67 and he was later joined on that score by Rasmus Hojgaard, Andy Sullivan and PGA Tour star Cameron Young, who is making a rare start on the DP World Tour.
Unfortunately for the four-time major Champion his back nine told a completely different story coming back in 38 with four bogeys three of which came in the last for holes mroy Trails by four strokes after day one with four players in a tie for the lead China’s howong Lee
Hit the front early with a five under 67 and he was later joined on that score by Rasmus hoard Andy Sullivan and PGA tour star Cameron Young Who is making a rare start on the DP World Tour mroy starts fast finishes slow it was all looking so
Good for maoy early on in his round having started on the 10th hole he began with a birdie making light work of the first par five he then went on to Birdie the 13th 15th and 18th before making his first slip up on the first hole despite
This early slip up mroy found the green with his drive on the 351 y yard par for second two immediately bounce back with another birdie to atone for his error sitting comfortably mroy put together a string of pars before his round started to unravel on the sixth hole unfortunately he continued to compound
His error making two additional Bogies on the seventh and eighth to finish one under for the day elsewhere in the field Liv Gulfs Wen Neiman has got his quest for auger points off to a good start finding himself tied for eighth following an opening three under 69 last week’s Dubai Invitational Champion Tommy
Fleetwood matched Neiman’s round of 69 howong Lee returns to form following a tour in 2023 in which he missed 18 out of 22 Cuts round one leader Lee was in a cheerful mood speaking to the media after his round discussing his round and form hezid I think I played Just solid
As last week I’ve been working on a lot of stuff during the winter time and see some result like this kind of like slowly payback now the three time DP World Tour winner spoke candidly about his poor 2023 season but hopes that is all behind him headed yeah it happens
Just golf I don’t know hopefully don’t happen again and I will definitely more behave this time
