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A Triple-Bogey Start Vanquished, Rory McIlroy Captures the FedEx Cup

McIlroy edged out Scottie Scheffler, who had held the lead in Atlanta for almost the entire Tour Championship. Sungjae Im and Scheffler finished tied for second, a stroke behind.

By Alan Blinder

ATLANTA — On Thursday, his scorecard a shambles after only two holes at the Tour Championship, Rory McIlroy did not find himself thinking about golf’s comeback magicians or his fellow major champions.

Instead, he considered the example of a 20-year-old player, Joohyung Kim, also known as Tom Kim, who won the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., this month.

“He started with a quad and ended up going on to win the golf tournament,” McIlroy, who had opened his Tour Championship with a triple-bogey and a bogey, said then. “It is possible.”

So McIlroy proved it himself. Three days after he produced an instant debacle at East Lake Golf Club and six weeks after he faltered at the British Open , McIlroy orchestrated the largest final-round comeback in the history of the Tour Championship and defeated Scottie Scheffler by a stroke on Sunday. Although McIlroy’s win did not end his eight-year drought in major tournaments, he earned $18 million, claimed his third FedEx Cup, a record, and allowed the PGA Tour to close a turbulent season by crowning a beloved stalwart as its champion.

“I just felt so close all year,” McIlroy said after his victory in Atlanta, where Scheffler started with the tournament lead Thursday and held it until Sunday evening. “I had a couple wins, but I was just waiting for something. Maybe this was it. I got a little lucky with Scottie not playing his best golf today, and I took advantage of that with my good play.”

But, McIlroy added, “I went up against the best player in the world today and I took him down, and that’s got to mean something.”

Even though McIlroy trailed Scheffler by six strokes at the beginning of the fourth round, the final two holes of his third round — played on Sunday morning because of Saturday’s weather in Atlanta — suggested he was in fighting form: He birdied both.

McIlroy started the final round with a bogey, but he made birdie on No. 3 to bring his score even. Starting with the fifth hole, he stitched together three consecutive birdies that would undergird a 32 on the front nine. Scheffler, McIlroy’s partner in the final pairing, had three bogeys in the first half of the fourth round, which he finished with a three-over-par 73.

For as sure-footed as McIlroy so often seemed Sunday, and for as wobbly as Scheffler sometimes was, McIlroy did not assume sole command of the leaderboard until the final putts at No. 16.

He might as well have on No. 15, though.

Thirty-one feet from the pin, McIlroy tapped the ball and then stood like a statue, his putter barely aloft as the ball broke to the left. Then it swung toward the hole, McIlroy stepping back — and willing, praying, something — a few steps before it rolled into the cup. McIlroy raised his right fist in jubilation as the crowd thundered its approval.

Scheffler made a bogey on the next hole and, at last, surrendered the solo lead.

“I really fought hard today; Rory just played a really good round of golf,” Scheffler said. “He made some key putts there at the end, and he definitely deserved to win.”

Scheffler finished in a tie for second with Sungjae Im. Xander Schauffele was two strokes behind them, and Max Homa and Justin Thomas finished tied for fifth, trailing McIlroy by four strokes.

In McIlroy, 33, the PGA Tour got a FedEx Cup winner who has been one of its fiercest loyalists during the year’s upheaval over LIV Golf, the new series that has lured top players with hundreds of millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.

The dramatics over LIV were hardly absent from Atlanta — McIlroy was paired Thursday and Friday with Cameron Smith, the British Open winner who has not publicly denied a British news media report that he intends to defect as soon as this week. But McIlroy’s win was a boon for an entrenched order that has lately been besieged.

“Everyone on tour has had to deal with a lot; even the guys that have went to LIV have had to deal with a lot,” McIlroy said before adding, a few moments later: “This is the best place in the world to play golf. It’s the most competitive. It’s got the best players. It’s got the deepest fields. I don’t know why you’d want to play anywhere else.”

He could have been forgiven, of course, for thinking otherwise Thursday in the rain in Atlanta. But Sunday, he said his mind had “automatically” wandered to Kim’s resurrection in Greensboro.

“I could have easily thought the other way and thought: ‘I’ve got no chance now. What am I doing here?’” McIlroy said Sunday, when he shot a 66. “But I just sort of, I guess, proved that I was in a really good mind-set for the week, and I didn’t let it get to me too much and just stuck my head down and got to work.”

By a lone stroke, it was enough.

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PGA Tour Championship: How Rory McIlroy rallied to win his record title

When the third round of the PGA Tour Championship finally concluded Sunday morning, Scottie Scheffler appeared to be in full control. His two-shot lead had grown to six, thanks to a four-birdie barrage when play resumed. But one of the most dramatic, tumultuous seasons in professional golf history was never going to dwindle away quietly. Rory McIlroy made sure of that.

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Here are the most important notes and stats to know from a thrilling final round at East Lake.

1. Let’s start with what Scheffler did Sunday morning to finish his third round. When play was interrupted Saturday, Scheffler’s vice grip on the FedExCup was loosening. A once-insurmountable advantage had shrunk to just two shots, with Scheffler missing half of his greens in regulation in Round 3 up to that point. The overnight reset seemed to completely recharge the world No. 1, as he hit four of his six approaches Sunday morning inside 12 feet. That two-shot lead was now six, and with his ball striking back in peak form, the tournament looked all but over.

Over the last 15 years, there have been more than 60 instances around the world in officially sanctioned events where a player led by six shots entering the final round. Those players went on to win 89 percent of the time.

2. McIlroy’s brilliant performance Sunday can be credited primarily to the two clubs that generate the most discussion about his on-course performance: the driver, which is often to acclaim, and the putter, which is often the subject of scorn. He was remarkable with both to get his record third FedExCup title.

McIlroy pummeled drive after drive this week, hitting 24 tee shots 325 yards or farther. He led the field in strokes gained off-the-tee in both the third and final rounds, racking up more than 3 1/2 strokes against the field in that discipline alone. And as brilliant as he was off the tee, he might have been even better on the greens Sunday. McIlroy made more than 115 feet of putts and gained 3.92 strokes on the field – both best of any player in the final round.

McIlroy finished the week ranked second in strokes gained putting. It’s the sixth time in his PGA Tour career he has ranked either first or second in the field in that statistic. He’s won four of those tournaments.

3. From 1983 through July of this year, there were more than 1,700 official stroke play events conducted by the PGA Tour. Not one time did a player start a tournament with a triple bogey or worse and go on to win. It has now happened twice in four tournaments this month.

At the Wyndham Championship, Joohyung Kim won by five shots despite starting his week with a quadruple bogey. This week, Rory McIlroy started with a six-shot deficit to Scottie Scheffler – then made a triple bogey on his opening hole. This was the third time McIlroy has made a triple bogey or worse at any point the week of a PGA Tour win. Over the last 40 years, that’s tied for the most wins with a triple – with Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.

4. McIlroy is the first player to win the FedExCup three times, having previously done so in 2016 and 2019. In both of his wins, McIlroy also posted the lowest “gross” score – or the best actual on-course score to par without starting strokes. That was not the case for the other two FedExCup winners under this format (Dustin Johnson in 2020, Patrick Cantlay in 2021). Since the Tour Championship was first held in 1987, only two men have won it more than twice: McIlroy and Woods, with three wins apiece.

Final Tour Championship leaderboard w/o starting strokes: -17 Rory McIlroy -16 Sungjae Im -15 Max Homa -14 Justin Thomas -13 Tom Hoge -12 Xander Schauffele -12 Aaron Wise -12 Sepp Straka -11 Hideki Matsuyama -11 Joaquin Niemann -11 JT Poston -11 Tony Finau -10 Scottie Scheffler — Dylan Dethier (@dylan_dethier) August 28, 2022

5. By losing a six-shot lead, Scheffler tied the PGA Tour record for the largest 54-hole lead by a player who did not go on to win. Incredibly, of the eight times it’s happened, on three occasions it was the reigning world No. 1 player who lost the big advantage. At the 1996 Masters, Greg Norman led by six shots entering the final round before being beat by Nick Faldo. Five years ago at the WGC-HSBC Champions, it was Dustin Johnson who had a six-stroke advantage, but Justin Rose wound up victorious. Now Scheffler.

McIlroy’s six-shot comeback to win is the largest in Tour Championship history. The previous record was five strokes, by Camilo Villegas in 2008.

6. With his brilliant bow on the 2021-22 season, McIlroy wrapped up his fourth career season scoring average title. The Vardon Trophy has been awarded to the player with the best scoring average in a season since the late 1930s. McIlroy is just the sixth player to win the trophy four or more times, joining Woods, Billy Casper, Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead.

This is the fourth time McIlroy has won three or more PGA Tour events in a single season. Since 1990, only Woods (13 times) and Mickelson (five) have done that more often.

7. With four wins (most of any player), including a major championship, Scheffler should still take home PGA Tour Player of the Year honors. In 42 days, Scheffler went from the best player on tour without a win to No. 1 in the world. That gap between a player getting his first PGA (or European) Tour win and getting to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking was by far the smallest gap in history. The previous mark belonged to Woods, who took 252 days.

As brilliant as Scheffler was with his approach play Sunday morning, he couldn’t keep the magic through the afternoon. The PGA Tour’s season leader in greens in regulation entering the week, Scheffler hit just nine greens in his final round. He wound up with minus-2.61 strokes gained approach in Round 4, the third-worst total of any player in the field.

8. Sungjae Im finished in a tie for second and may have taken the cup himself if not for an ill-timed double bogey at 14. Im was excellent with his irons in the final round, racking up 2.85 strokes on approach, most of any player. The 24-year-old, who makes his home in the Atlanta area, led the field in front-nine scoring for the week at 13-under.

Im will be a key piece for Trevor Immelman’s International Team at the Presidents Cup next month, especially considering the expected defections of many prospective team members to LIV Golf. Im earned 3 1/2 points for the upstart International side in 2019, tied for most of any player on the team.

9. Xander Schauffele finished fourth, continuing his exemplary run at East Lake. In 24 career rounds at the Tour Championship, Schauffele has never shot a round worse than par. That run is the third-longest active streak of rounds at par or better for a player at a single PGA Tour course, trailing only Stewart Cink at Waialae Country Club (32 in a row) and Billy Horschel at Sedgefield Country Club (27).

Schauffele shot 69 on Sunday, continuing another remarkable streak: He has not shot over par in the final round of a PGA Tour event since the 2020 U.S. Open, nearly two full years ago.

10. East Lake wound up yielding an average score of 67.91 for the week, the lowest number ever at the Tour Championship. In relation to par (-2.09), the course played as the seventh-easiest all season long on the PGA Tour, sandwiched between La Quinta CC (The American Express) and the Country Club of Jackson (Sanderson Farms). Players eviscerated the two par 5s, playing them to an average score of 4.31, the second-lowest average of any course on tour in 2022.

(Photo of Rory McIlroy: Adam Hagy / USA Today)

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Rory McIlroy wins 2022 Tour Championship, earns $18M payout

By kristen conti • published august 28, 2022 • updated on august 28, 2022 at 7:08 pm.

Rory McIlroy rallied to beat out Scottie Scheffler in the final round of the Tour Championship on Sunday.

The moment @McIlroyRory became a 3x #FedExCup champion. (via @PGATOUR ) pic.twitter.com/6eLNwDag8E — NBC Sports (@NBCSports) August 28, 2022

This is his third Tour Championship win and third FedEx Cup victory. He is the first player in history to win three FedEx Cups.

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Throughout the tournament, Scheffler stayed in front. For all four rounds and 72 holes, he continued to dominate the greens, while Xander Schauffele tried his best to come up from behind. Schauffele’s last shot during round two proved his determination to come out on top.

Similarly, during the final round, though Scheffler remained in the lead, McIlroy played a number of good holes, keeping him neck-and-neck with Scheffler. 

RORY TIES THE LEAD 🚨 He was 6 back to start the round pic.twitter.com/oLSs0MTdso — PointsBet Sportsbook (@PointsBetUSA) August 28, 2022

And after erasing a six-shot deficit by the final hole, McIlroy reigned supreme. 

Such a thrilling win will be going down in the history books as McIlroy’s third FedEx Cup win. Let’s take a look at McIlroy’s scores from all four rounds and the final leaderboard:

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Who won the 2022 tour championship .

McIlroy won the 2022 Tour Championship with a score of 21-under, a total of 263, after shooting 4-under on Sunday.

Who won the other events in the 2022 FedEx Cup playoffs?

While McIlroy won the 2022 Tour Championship. Will Zalatoris clinched his first PGA Tour win at this year's FedEx St. Jude Championship.

Patrick Cantlay secured the BMW Championship, and at the time, moved to the No. 2 spot in the FedEx Cup rankings.

Who won the 2022 FedEx Cup?

After winning the 2022 Tour Championship with a total score of 263, four-time Major champion Rory McIlroy clinched the 2022 FedEx Cup.

This is his third time winning the FedEx Cup Championships, with his other wins occurring in 2016 and 2019.

2022 Tour Championship leaderboard

After an exciting four rounds at the 2022 Tour Championship, here is the final leaderboard:

For the entire leaderboard, click here . 

How did Rory McIlroy do in every round of the 2022 Tour Championship?

In Round 1 and 2, McIlroy scored a 67. In Round 3, the three-time FedEx Cup winner scored a 63, and in Round 4, he came from behind and scored a 66. 

He shot 21-under for the tournament, securing a total score of 263 to win the FedEx Cup Playoffs.

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McIlroy balled out at The PLAYERS Championship Thursday, taking a share of the lead and making history along the way.

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Rory McIlroy joined a bit of history at The PLAYERS Championship Thursday, carding a record-tying 10 birdies during a 7-under 65 round.

That places McIlroy into a tie atop the leaderboard with Xander Schauffele.

After a disastrous final round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Northern Irishman spent the last few days working on his game.

“It’s probably been one of my best days in a while, which is nice,” McIlroy said.

Those 10 birdies tie the record for a single round at The PLAYERS. It’s also the most McIlroy has made in 641 days, dating back to the final round of the 2022 Canadian Open, per the Athletic’s Justin Ray.

A number of other players have made 10 birdies in a round, with the most recent being held by Justin Thomas when he won here in 2021.

Rory McIlroy: 10 birdies, tying @THEPLAYERS record for a single round and his most in a PGA Tour round in 641 days (final round of 2022 Canadian Open). McIlroy gained well over 3 strokes with his approach play today - a stark contrast from his early season struggles. — Justin Ray (@JustinRayGolf) March 14, 2024

Putting has been one of his weak spots recently, but he leads the field thus far after picking up 3.593 strokes on the greens.

His approach game was also much improved, which is another thing he has prioritized. The 2019 PLAYERS champion picked up 3.778 strokes in his approach game— the second-best in the field.

He began his day on the back nine with three straight birdies. The four-time major winner added three more birdies to his scorecard in the next five holes before he dropped a shot at the 18th.

McIlroy got back to 6-under on the par-5 2nd after making a tap-in birdie. His eighth circle on the scorecard came at the 4th, with another to follow at six.

He dropped a shot on seven, where he recorded a double-bogey. That hole included a lengthy discussion between him, Jordan Spieth and Viktor Hovland , on where he should drop after hitting the ball into the water off the tee.

McIlroy returned to 7-under on the 9th when he made that historic 10th birdie from 17 feet.

“It was disappointing not to get that up-and-down on 7, but that’s probably why I give it a little mini-fist pump on 9 to feel like I got one of those shots back,” McIlroy said.

Rory McIlroy birdies his final hole of the day to tie the lead and cap off an excellent opening 65 at TPC Sawgrass. : Golf Channel & @peacock | #THEPLAYERS pic.twitter.com/Yr9fzfsi0D — Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) March 14, 2024

McIlroy’s fist pump says it all. He was thrilled with his round despite hitting into the penalty twice. To make 10 birdies on TPC Sawgrass is not an easy feat.

“It would be nice to shoot 62 and not have two in the water, I guess,” McIlroy said.

The last few years have seen him struggle on Day 1 of this event and put him in a hole. McIlroy won’t have to do that this week.

“It goes back to I didn’t have many expectations out there today because I was like, ‘Okay, feels good on the range and feels good in practice, but let’s see how it is when you’ve got a card in your hand,’” he said. “There’s something to be said for that, sort of lessening the expectations and going out there and seeing what happens.”

McIlroy will look to build off that 65 Friday as he tees off alongside Hovland and Spieth at 1:40 p.m. ET.

Savannah Leigh Richardson is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. For more golf coverage, be sure to follow us @_PlayingThrough on all major social platforms. You can also follow her on Twitter @SportsGirlSL and Instagram @savannah_leigh_sports.

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How Rory McIlroy recovered from this score-killing mistake

Rory McIlroy didn't let one bad swing ruin his tournament.

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It was only one shot. His first shot! His first swing on his first hole of his first round of the tournament, and Rory McIlroy sent his ball flying out of bounds left. It led to a triple-bogey.

“I got off to the worst start possible,” he said.

And it almost cost Rory a fortune.

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Mounds of research from golf statisticians, coaches, and everyone in between has found that the key to golf happiness isn’t making more birdies. It’s learning how to avoid big numbers.

You may be surprised to learn that a scratch handicap only makes two more birdies per round than a 20 handicapper . That’s because the key separator between the two isn’t birdies, it’s double bogeys and worse. Scratch handicaps make less than one of those per round, while higher handicaps make more than two.

Doing absolutely everything in your power to avoid them in the first place is the best strategy, for pros and amateurs alike. But as Rory proved this week, that’s easier said than done. Yet he accomplished the rare feat this week of actually recovering from one.

It took a few things falling his way, but those are the kind of breaks you need to lift a trophy on the PGA Tour.

Let’s break down how he did it..

1. He made the mistake early

There’s a ton of intangible reasons why making a big number early is bad. Starting off with a double can be brutal on your confidence, for one, which will transform the rest of your round into a slog. For the rest of us, too, making a big number early doesn’t present an opportunity to recover. It means we’d probably have to play really well in order to not make matters worse.

But in some ways, making his sole big number of the tournament on his very first hole was a blessing in disguise. Sure, it wasn’t the start he wanted, but there was no cut to deal with, which meant no matter what, he had 71 holes after that to make it up.

“The golf course was really soft and really gettable,” he said after his first round. “I knew there was a lot of holes out there that you could birdie.”

It speaks to the first lesson the rest of us can learn from Rory’s round: If you make a big number early, stay calm, stay patient, and don’t panic. Accept it, and move on.

2. He learned from it

But Rory didn’t just accept the mistake he made, he also learned from it.

Rory’s drive left was the result of a lingering swing issue he’d battled at various points last year. He lined up to hit a cut, but double-crossed his drive instead. Rather than turning through with his body, Rory said his body stalled, and his hands rolled the clubface closed.

“I tried to hit this little guidey cut into the fairway,” he said. “My body stopped, double-crossed it, ball went left and OB. There’s a lesson in there somewhere, but even when you’re not sure about what you’re trying to do, sort of going full send for me is the best way forward.”

But as you can see, he learned from it.  And more crucially, he didn’t stop hitting cuts because of it. Knowing what he did wrong the first time, he relied on his cut multiple times during his final round, to great effect.

Rory doing Rory things 🦅 @McIlroyRory with an eagle at No. 6. pic.twitter.com/NltP5HA74g — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 25, 2022

3. His putter got really hot

The fact of the matter remains: If you make a really bad swing, you’re going to need to do multiple really good things to make up for it.

Rory’s double-crossed drive on his first hole, from a Strokes Gained perspective, lost him 2.25 shots to the field. That’s an enormous amount of shots to lose in one swing of the club, and as such, it takes some heroics to make up for it enough to end up winning the tournament.

In essence, that means holing a shot. Rory holed-out for eagle on his sixth hole of his first round, but even then, that only resulted making up 1.62 of those 2.25 shots lost. He still needed to find half a shot somewhere to get back to even, and besides, holing out shots isn’t really a sustainable strategy. In reality, making up for really bad shots means dropping putts.

And that’s what happened with Rory. He dropped a ream of key putts during his final round: An 11-footer on his sixth hole, a 17-footer on his seventh hole, and a 33-footer on his 15th hole. Those three putts — which have a tour average make-rate of 18, 30 and 5 percent respectively — collectively made up for the OB drive earlier in the week.

Rory got hot, relied on some help from Scottie Scheffler, and in the end walked away a deserving champion by a hair. And along the way, he taught us a valuable lesson about how difficult it is to undo an error.

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In winning the 2011 U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., McIlroy set or tied 12 U.S. Open records, including the mark for the lowest 72-hole score in championship history at 16-under-par 268. He has three other major championship victories: the 2014 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, the 2014 PGA Championship at Valhalla and the 2012 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island Resort. He owns 38 worldwide professional victories, 24 of which have come on the PGA Tour, including the 2022 Tour Championship, which netted him the FedEx Cup title for a third time. McIlroy also won The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in 2019, and he ended the 2018-19 season by claiming the Tour Championship to take the FedExCup for a second time (2016). He's also a three-time PGA Player of the Year Award winner (2012, 2014, 2019). McIlroy represented Great Britain & Ireland in the 2007 Walker Cup Match at Royal County Down not far from his hometown of Holywood. He's represented Europe in the 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2023 Ryder Cup Matches.

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The Los Angeles Country Club (North Course)

65-67-69-70--271

The Country Club

67-69-73-69--278

Torrey Pines Golf Course (South Course)

70-73-67-73--283

Winged Foot Golf Club (West Course)

67-76-68-75--286

Pebble Beach Golf Links

68-69-70-72--279

Shinnecock Hills Golf Club

Oakmont Country Club

Chambers Bay

77-72-70-66--285

Pinehurst Resort & C.C. (Course No. 2)

71-68-74-73--286

Merion Golf Club

73-70-75-76--294

The Olympic Club

Congressional Country Club

65-66-68-69--268

Bethpage State Park (Black Course)

72-70-72-68--282

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Rory McIlroy puts together one of the more psychopathic scorecards in recent memory at East Lake

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For those of you who do not live on Golf Twitter (lucky you), a quick explainer: a "pyscho scorecard," a term coined by our good friend Shane Bacon, is a scorecard that features all kinds of chaos. Eagles, birdies, doubles and triples, hell, a 9 or a 10, too (looking at you, Collin Morikawa). No one is immune to its allure. Tour pros, single-digit handicappers, high handicappers. Everyone goes pyscho once in awhile.

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This includes Rory McIlroy, a two-time winner of the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup who normally feasts at East Lake, which made him a popular come-from-behind pick this week. But before he reached the second tee, his six-shot deficit to Scottie Scheffler became a nine-shot deficit thanks to a disastrous triple bogey to begin his round. His tee shot at the opening par 4 went out of bounds, and his third shot found a fairway bunker. From there, he came up short of the green with his fourth, putted his fifth to six feet and then missed the short double-bogey effort for a swift kick to the teeth to start his day.

What happened after became the stuff of pyscho-scorecard legend. McIlroy bogeyed the second, birdied the third, bogeyed the fourth, birdied the fifth, and then chipped in for eagle at the par-5 sixth:

McIlroy did not record his first par until the very next hole, the par-4 seventh. And all he did after that was birdie the eighth to climb all the way back to four under, even par for the day. Feast your eyes on this bad boy:

Even par all the way, baby. The beauty of a good pyscho scorecard is how much better it looks than, say, eight straight pars. They are both even par scorecards, but one just looks a hell of a lot more fun, at least for us to look at. We doubt it's fun for Rory, though he did crack a smile for that bounce-back eagle.

At this point, we guessed that Rory would have signed up for 10 straight pars to finish right now, but it would be a lot cooler if there were four or five more circles on the way in. And sure enough he did just that, making five birdies on his last 10 holes. However, he also made two more bogeys, too.

McIlroy ultimately posted the most amazing three-under 67 you'll ever see, complete with one eagle, eight birdies, four pars, four bogeys and a triple. Pure psycho, for sure.

"I knew my game was good, it was just one of those things," McIlroy said afterward. "But not the ideal way to start, but proud of how I bounced back from that. I would have been happy just to get back to even par after the first few holes, but to shoot three under was great."

McIlroy also reminded us all that at the 2016 Deutsche Bank Championship, he was four over for his first three holes and went on to win the tournament. But he's got a lot of work left if he's going to do that this week. Thanks to the staggered-stroke start, McIlroy began the day six shots back of Scottie Scheffler. And then when Scheffler posted a five-under 65, he extended his lead over McIlroy to eight shots.

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Rory McIlroy dismisses report he was offered $850M to join LIV Golf

• Updated: Apr. 16, 2024, 5:38 p.m. |
• Published: Apr. 16, 2024, 4:43 p.m.

Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, waits to tee off on the 11th hole during the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational golf tournament, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack

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Rory McIlroy reconfirmed what was already known this week. He’s a PGA Tour lifer.

The 4-time major champion was asked about his future with the tour on Tuesday after a London newspaper reported he was offered $850 million and an equity stake in the league to move to LIV Golf.

Speaking with Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis from Hilton Head Island ahead of this week’s RBC Heritage, the man from Northern Ireland confirmed there is no validity to the report and that he has no plans to leave the PGA Tour.

“I honestly don’t know how these things get started,” he said with a smirk. “I’ve never been offered a number from LIV and I’ve never contemplated going to LIV. I think I’ve made it clear over the past two years that I don’t think it’s something for me.”

McIlroy acknowledged there are likely guys playing on tour who have talked to LIV. But he has consistently been the PGA Tour’s biggest supporter over the last two years and he reaffirmed his loyalty to the tour where he is a 24-time winner on Tuesday.

“It’s never even been a conversation for us,” he said. “It’s unfortunate that we have to deal with it and that this is the state that our game is in but I’m obviously here today and I’m playing this PGA Tour event this week and I will play the PGA Tour for the rest of my career.

Sean O’Flaherty, McIlroy’s agent, told the Irish Independent in an email that there was “zero truth” to the report by City A.M. , a London financial paper.

McIlroy, who is coming off a T-22, four-over at the Masters, said tradition, legacy and the players from past eras are what motivates him to play on the PGA Tour.

And while it appears he’s softened his overt criticism of LIV and its format, he still wishes all the best players were playing together like they were at Augusta National last week.

He added that golf’s current fracturing hurts everyone involved with the game including players, fans, media partners and sponsors.

“The game is way better with all of us together,” he said. “There’s obviously some really good players on LIV that would be a great addition to the field this week and they’re not here. And that’s unfortunate, I think for everyone.”

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The PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund announced a framework agreement to form an alliance in June 2023 , but the sides haven’t been able to finalize an agreement.

LIV Golf boasts an impressive roster of players like Jon Rahm , Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Cameron Smith, Patrick Reed, Phil Mickelson and others.

But last week at Augusta belonged to the PGA Tour, which claimed the top five spots on the leaderboard and saw world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler win his second green jacket.

In addition to this week at Harbour Town Golf Links, McIlroy is scheduled to play with Ireland’s Shane Lowry in next week’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans, which is a team event.

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2024 Corales Puntacana Championship odds: Surprising PGA picks, predictions from model that's called 11 majors

Sportsline's proven model simulated the corales puntacana championship 2024 10,000 times and revealed its pga golf picks.

The seventh PGA Tour iteration of the Corales Puntacana Championship will begin on Thursday at Corales Golf Club in the Dominican Republic. The first two years of the event were played as Web.com Tour tournaments, but it was elevated to the PGA Tour beginning in 2018. Defending champion Matt Wallace is not in the 2024 Corales Puntacana Championship field, but Nicolai Hojgaard is returning after a runner-up finish last year. Hojgaard turned heads at the Masters last week when he was briefly tied for the lead in the third round.

However, Alex Noren is the 12-1 favorite in the 2024 Corales Puntacana Championship odds, followed by Hojgaard (14-1) and Billy Horschel (20-1). There are only four golfers listed inside of 30-1 on the PGA odds board, so are there any longshots you should target with your 2024 Corales Puntacana Championship bets? Before locking in your 2024 Corales Puntacana Championship picks, be sure to see the golf predictions and projected leaderboard from the proven computer model at SportsLine .

Our proprietary model, built by DFS pro Mike McClure, has been red-hot since the PGA Tour resumed in June of 2020. In fact, the model is up almost $10,000 on its best bets since the restart, nailing tournament after tournament.

McClure's model correctly predicted Scottie Scheffler would finish on top of the leaderboard at the 2024 Masters, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and The Players Championship this season. McClure also included Hideki Matsuyama in his best bets to win the 2024 Genesis Invitational. That bet hit at +9000, and for the entire tournament, McClure's best bets returned nearly $1,000.

The model also predicted Jon Rahm would be victorious at the 2023 Sentry Tournament of Champions and The American Express. At the 2023 Masters, the model was all over Rahm's second career major victory heading into the weekend. Rahm was two strokes off the lead heading into the third round, but the model still projected him as the winner. It was the second straight Masters win for the model, which also nailed Scheffler winning in 2022.

In addition, McClure's best bets included Nick Taylor (70-1) winning the 2023 RBC Canadian Open, Jason Day (17-1) winning outright at the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson, and Rickie Fowler (14-1) finishing on top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic.

This same model has also nailed a whopping 11 majors entering the weekend and hit the Masters three straight years. Anyone who has followed it has seen massive returns.

Now that the Corales Puntacana Championship 2024 field is finalized, SportsLine simulated the tournament 10,000 times, and the results were surprising. Head to SportsLine now to see the projected leaderboard .

Top 2024 Corales Puntacana Championship predictions 

One major surprise the model is calling for at the 2024 Corales Puntacana Championship: Noren, who is the favorite has finished inside the top 20 in four straight PGA tournaments, struggles this week and barely cracks the top five. Noren played in his first PGA Tour event in 2008, and he has played in 171 PGA tournaments overall. However, he is still seeking his first victory, so it is difficult to justify his position as the favorite on the odds board this week.

Noren has struggled with his driver this season, ranked outside the top 100 in total driving and driving distance. He also sits outside the top 150 on the PGA Tour in putting average and one-putt percentage, so he would need to make drastic improvements during all four rounds this week. While this is a weaker field due to the RBC Heritage, the model has identified better golfers to back in the Dominican Republic. 

Another surprise: Victor Perez, a 35-1 longshot, makes a strong run at the title. He has a much better chance to win it all than his odds imply, so he's a target for anyone looking for a huge payday. The Frenchman finished inside the top 15 at the PGA Championship last year before making the cut at the Open Championship during a successful 2023 season.

Perez has seven professional wins, including three on the European Tour, and he is still seeking his first PGA Tour victory. The 31-year-old finished T3 in the Puerto Rico Open last month before cracking the top 20 at the Texas Children's Houston Open. He has proven he can beat up on weak fields and he ranks fourth on the PGA Tour in GIR percentage (71.8), making him an excellent longshot pick this week.  See who else to pick here . 

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The model is also targeting five other golfers with odds of 30-1 or longer to make a strong run at the title. Anyone who backs these longshots could hit it big. You can only see the model's picks here .

Who will win the 2024 Corales Puntacana Championship, and which longshots will stun the golfing world? Check out the Corales Puntacana Championship 2024 odds below and then visit SportsLine to see the projected Corales Puntacana Championship leaderboard , all from the model that's nailed 11 golf majors, including the last three Masters.

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Rory McIlroy Betting Profile: RBC Heritage

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In his competition at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, Rory McIlroy carded a 22nd-place finish, and he heads into the 2024 RBC Heritage aiming to improve on that finish.

The RBC Heritage Tournament & Course Info

• Date: April 18-21, 2024
• Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
• Course: Harbour Town Golf Links
• Par: 71 / 7,213 yards
• Purse: $20M
• Previous Winner: Matt Fitzpatrick

At the RBC Heritage

• McIlroy has entered the RBC Heritage once of late, in 2020. He finished 41st, posting a score of -11.
• Matt Fitzpatrick won this tournament in 2023 with numbers of 0.457 in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee (39th in field), 5.013 in SG: Approach the Green (10th), and 2.732 in SG: Putting (20th).
• Fitzpatrick also posted numbers of 303.6 in average driving distance (15th in field), 66.67% in terms of greens in regulation (23rd), and 25.25 putts per round (fourth).

McIlroy's Recent History at the RBC Heritage

Mcilroy's recent performances.

• McIlroy has finished in the top five once over his last five tournaments.
• Over his last five appearances, McIlroy has carded a score that's better than average in all five of those outings.
• He has carded an average score of -5 over his last five appearances.
• Rory McIlroy has averaged 313.7 yards off the tee in his past five tournaments.
• McIlroy has an average of 1.001 Strokes Gained: Putting in his past five tournaments.
• Looking at Strokes Gained: Total, McIlroy has an average of 6.600 in his past five tournaments.

McIlroy's Advanced Stats and Rankings

• McIlroy has posted a Strokes Gained: Off the Tee average of 0.858 this season (fourth on TOUR). His average driving distance (313.1 yards) ranks fourth, while his 72% driving accuracy average ranks 17th.
• In terms of Strokes Gained: Approach, McIlroy ranks 61st on TOUR with a mark of 0.193.
• On the greens, McIlroy's 0.119 Strokes Gained: Putting mark places him 78th on TOUR this season, and his 28.67 putts-per-round average ranks 56th. He has broken par 24.49% of the time (94th).

McIlroy's Best Finishes

• McIlroy has participated in seven tournaments this season, and while he hasn't finished first in any of them, he has earned one finish in the top-five.
• In those seven events, he made the cut seven times, a success rate of 100%.
• As of now, McIlroy has compiled 549 points, which ranks him 41st in the FedExCup standings.

McIlroy's Best Strokes Gained Performances

• This season, McIlroy produced his best Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee performance at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, ranking No. 1 in the field at 6.072. In that tournament, he finished 21st.
• McIlroy's best Strokes Gained: Approach mark this season came at the Valero Texas Open in April 2024, as he posted a 7.404 mark, which ranked him third in the field. He finished third in that event.
• In terms of Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green, McIlroy's best effort this season was at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, where his 1.002 mark ranked 30th in the field.
• At THE PLAYERS Championship in March 2024, McIlroy posted a Strokes Gained: Putting mark of 4.096 (his best mark this season), which ranked 14th in the field. He finished 19th in that tournament.
• McIlroy delivered his best Strokes Gained: Total mark this season (12.154) at the Valero Texas Open in April 2024. That ranked third in the field.

McIlroy's Strokes Gained Rankings

Mcilroy's past results.

All stats in this article are accurate for McIlroy as of the start of the RBC Heritage.

Note: The PGA TOUR has created this story via a machine-learning model using data from ShotLink , powered by CDW, in addition to player performance data. While we strive for accuracy and quality, please note that the information provided may not be entirely error-free.