Opening 67 included shows of emotion and some sublime rescues at Brookline
Rory McIlroy plays his second shot on the 18th hole during the first round of the US Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Photograph: David Cannon/Getty ImagesThis is what the US Open does. It forces you to bear your soul, and to rely on inner resolve. The display of petulance, smashing his wedge into the sand – not once, but twice – at one point of his round, brought us a raw human trait; of wanting something so badly.
Nowhere was this more apparent than in his actions on the fifth hole, his 14th of the day. The drivable par-four of 375 yards is among the easier of the holes encountered, but McIlroy – going with a three-wood – saw his tee shot finish in ugly rough overhanging a bunker. He struggled to find a stance in quick sands that moved and swallowed his Nike shoes, eventually only managing to advance the ball from the grass into a bunker 20 yards in front.
What followed, though, summed up Mcilroy’s intent and focus. He splashed out of the bunker to 13 feet and rolled in the par-saving putt. He then followed up with birdies on the sixth and the par-five seventh to move into the outright lead on four under, only to drop his only shot of the round on the ninth – where a poor approach pushed into greenside rough led to a gentle throw of the offending club in front of him – and, finally, he proved fallible in failing to get up and down to save par.
“I think one of the things over the years that I maybe haven’t done as well at US Opens is when I’ve put myself in those sort of positions, like in that long rough on two. Or where I found myself on five, trying to be a little too heroic with the first shot and leaving it in there, or just sort of completely getting it wrong, and then all of a sudden you’re scrambling to make a double,” said McIlroy, who successfully kept any high numbers of his card.
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