US Open: Strange times? Defending champion ready to go on the offensive
Rory McIlroy has decided that the best way to try to keep his US Open title – something only Curtis Strange has done, in 1988 and 1989, in the past 61 years – is to attack.
Rory McIlroy has decided that the best way to try to keep his US Open title – something only Curtis Strange has done, in 1988 and 1989, in the past 61 years – is to attack.
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Mark Garrod
Despite the Olympic Club in San Francisco being a far harder test than Congressional was a year ago, the Northern Irishman plans to take it on.
"I didn't expect to be saying that before I got here – I thought there would be a lot more irons off tees," said McIlroy after practising with Lee Westwood and Graeme McDowell and before heading off to the baseball to throw the ceremonial first pitch ahead of the San Francisco Giants v Houston Astros game.
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