For a brief but worrying moment, Rory McIlroy felt he was destined to suffer yet another truncated week after he ran up an ugly quadruple-bogey on his third hole in the first round of the Memorial tournament yesterday.
The US Open champion found the water once and landed in two greenside bunkers to butcher the par-3 12th at Muirfield Village Golf Club before clawing his way back up the leaderboard to shoot a one-under-par 71.
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