Rory McIlroy leads DP World Tour’s Dubai Invitational despite quadruple bogey
Rory McIlroy has played spectacularly for 35 of the 36 holes thus far at the Dubai Invitational.
He leads by two shots over Yannik Paul of Germany and Denmark’s Jeff Winther after carding a 1-under 70 on Friday, but his round included a quadruple bogey at the par-3 8th.
“I think if I look at the other 17 holes that I played, I played very, very well again. Hit some good iron shots,” McIlroy said of his Friday round.
Rory mroy has played spectacularly for 35 of the 36 holes thus far at the Dubai Invitational he leads by Two Shots over Yanik Paul of Germany and Denmark’s Jeff winter after carding a one under 70 on Friday but his round included a quadruple bogey at the par 38 I think if
I look at the other 17 holes that I played I played very very well again hit some good iron shots mroy said of his Friday round played not to dissimilarly to the way I played Thursday but the conditions were getting a little trickier the wind was up the greens were
Firm and I had a couple of miscues on the eighth hole I felt like I did well to get my head back into it and play some solid golf on the way in and everyone seemed to find it a little more difficult today than yesterday so it’s
Nice to go into the weekend with the lead melroy rifled not one but two t- ball falls into the water to the left of the green at the 214 yd8 hole his fifth shot finally found the pudding surface but he could not make the 13-footer for a triple bogey making a quadruple bogey
Mroy dropped from 11 under to 7 under just like that but the northern Irishman quickly put his mishaps behind him after missing an 11f footer for Birdie on the ninth hole mroy made birdie at the par 510th 10 was big I had a chance to
Bounce back on nine that I missed but 10 was big mroy noted three holes later on the par five 13th mroy drove the Green in two thus setting up another Birdie the 13th at Dubai Creek features an island green thus requiring two accurate shots to get home in two mroy avoided
The water as he continued to recover from his troubles at the eighth he then made one more Birdie on the par 316 thus giving him five total on the day to go along with his quad at the eighth the day before the four-time major Champion
Carded a bogey free 9 under 62 mroy sits at 10 under for the tournament and will begin his third round on Saturday at 139a me golf channel will begin coverage at 230a me
