Rory McIlroy left Pinehurst No. 2 as quickly as Bryson DeChambeau putted out for a one stroke victory.
Multiple reporters on the bottom noticed McIlroy bolt proper for his courtesy automobile and depart the golf course as quick as he might. Alan Bastable of Golf.com caught it on video.
McIlroy didn’t conduct any media interviews, nor did he converse to anybody from NBC Sports.
McIlroy couldn’t abdomen his newest main championship heartbreak, with this one hurting greater than all the opposite ones mixed.
He appeared completely dejected within the scoring room afterward, and understandably so.
The Northern Irishman stood on the tee on the par-3 fifteenth gap at 8-under par, with DeChambeau trailing him by one. But he airmailed the inexperienced with a 7-iron, which led to a bogey 4. His demise would worsen from there.
On the subsequent gap, McIlroy had a 2-foot-6-inch putt for par and inexplicably missed. His second straight bogey dropped him again to 6-under for the championship and right into a tie with DeChambeau with two holes to play.
After making an up-and-down to avoid wasting par on 17, McIlroy pulled his drive left into the native space on 18, drawing a poor lie with wiregrass proper in entrance of his ball. He then hit his second shot simply in need of the inexperienced, barely escpaing the sand entice that guards the entrance of the placing floor. McIlroy performed his third shot to 3-feet-9-inches behind the opening, and like he did on 16, he missed that putt too.
Just like that, McIlroy dropped three pictures over his remaining 4 holes as his collapse on the 124th U.S. Open will dwell on perpetually.
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