Rory McIlroy had a rough end to his first round in his return to Ireland, bogeying two of the last three holes at the Amgen Irish Open following a slow play warning that he said later was due to massive crowds following the Masters champion.<\/p>\n
McIlroy shot 1-under-par 71 at the K Club outside of Dublin to stand five shots behind first-round leader Nacho Elvira at the DP World Tour event.<\/p>\n
But McIlroy told reporters afterward that he managed to avoid \u201closing my s—\u201d with rules officials but was upset that the warnings were due to the amount of media, camera crews and crowds that followed him as well as Thriston Lawrence and Kristoffer Reitan.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI got frustrated the last few holes because I felt a bit rushed,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cWe got put on the clock pretty early and then the first official went away and then we were put on the clock for the last three holes by another one.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like it always happens and I don\u2019t think they use sort of common sense in terms of, well, of course we\u2019re going to lose ground because we\u2019re going to have to wait on crowds and wait on the two camera crews that are out there. They should give us a little bit of leeway.\u201d<\/p>\n
McIlroy\u2019s lone Irish Open victory came at the same venue\u2014also the site of the 2006 Ryder Cup\u2014in 2016.<\/p>\n
Reports had a large first-day gallery of some 20,000, most of them following McIlroy, who is from Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s happened to me quite a lot before in these sort of big groups when I come back to Europe and play and I just let it agitate me,\u201d he said. \u201cAny time I either come back to this tour or I play in some of those [world No.] 1, 2, 3 groups, we are always put on the clock for the same reason. It happened at the Players [in March] and I lost my s— with an official.\u201d<\/p>\n
McIlroy went on to win that tournament in a playoff over J.J. Spaun after earlier winning the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. His victory at the Masters completed the career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n
The five-time major winner is also playing in the next week\u2019s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth prior to the Ryder Cup later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy had a rough end to his first round in his return to Ireland, bogeying two of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-133282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}