Rory McIlroy will be working hard in practice during his week off after the Phoenix | Golf News

A new addition process will help Rory McIlroy’s card close 64, finishing 13 under par on his debut for TPC Scottsdale, but he has a lot to work on before his next event at Riviera.

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Rory McIlroy admitted that his first start at the Phoenix Open had been ‘hopeless’, but was well received by seven under 64s.

Rory McIlroy will spend his week off working hard on various aspects of his game after his first “hopeless” debut at the Phoenix Waste Management Open.

McIlroy managed to close out with his best round of the tournament, seven under 64s that forced him to knock on the door of another top 10 finish, but he was left to run another week of too many costly mistakes also that he missed out in Abu Dhabi and at Torrey Pines last week.

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The 31-year-old seemed to not finish an undeveloped finish when he stopped the second run of the day to water at the 11th, although he saved a bogey from eight feet and then made four birdies in five holes as he suddenly got caught. with TPC Scottsdale lawn.

It was his powerful and precise long game that established three consecutive birdies from the second, and a 25-foot putt for the ninth birdie of the day at eighth got it to 13 under par.

McIlroy works hard in practice during his week off

McIlroy felt his poor view of the greens cost him a chance to fight for his first win from the WGC-HSBC Champions in 2019, but returned to using a line on his members to support the alignment of a major development of the final round. day.

“It’s been a disappointment,” he said when asked to summarize his first start in Phoenix, with two difficult 70s on Thursday and Saturday effectively ruling a- out of the running. “I had two real walkers, but I played a little better on Friday and then I played better today.

“I did better, and struggled hard on those greens to read more than anything else. With greens I had never seen before, I used the green book a bit and did that for three days. and it didn’t work out much., so I just went with my eyes and my gut today and it helped.

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“Maybe I trusted it a little better and grabbed some buttons, which was nice. I hit putts on the green field with the mirror, and then I used the line on the ball for first in time, and then I used I used the line on the outside ball today.

“So it was just more of a trusting thing. As soon as you put the line down on the ball you promised, Okay, this is where I’m going to start. Just That helped add a little more trust. “

Using a line on the ball was a habit he last practiced in his 2014 golden season, the most successful year of his career, and he could remember the right times when he started. e and stopped that way.

McIlroy struggled on the greens at TPC Scottsdale

He said: “The last time I used it regularly was from the sixth hole on the last day of Augusta 2014 to the last day of the Scottish Open 2014. So sort of April to July.

“I won a contest with him, I won Wentworth through that piece. I got my best strokes ever put around at Memorial using the line. It’s something I’ve been going for back and forth with it over the years, sometimes I feel comfortable with it, sometimes I don’t, I always go back to it when I’m struggling to start on my line or trust there.

“So I’ll get used to it a bit next week and see if it travels back to Riviera.”

McIlroy returns to action at the Genesis Invitational, the first of four tournaments just starting, and it’s clear by himself what he needs to work on before traveling to California.

“I’m getting way too steep in my downhill movement, hitting a lot of sleds and a lot of weak cuts,” McIlroy said. “So I’ll work on that, try to take the club. out in front of me on the way back and I’ll try to put a little down on the way down. And then just a handful of put.

“Yeah, I’ll be working hard next week. I got a week off and four in a row coming up, so it was good to end up, going into a week off playing like I did today, but I still got a lot of work to do. “