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How Rory McIlroy reacted after seeing Scottie Scheffler make two bogeys in the final few holes at the Travelers
Rory McIlroy is far from being out of contention at The Travelers and after recovering from a dismal week at Oakmont, the world number two is in a confident mood.
McIlroy had a nightmare at Oakmont both on and off the course as he seemed to let the off-course stuff bother him a lot before failing to produce when it mattered.
However, the Northern Irishman is now back in business and after turning up at The Travelers in a better mood, appears ready to contend again.
McIlroy actually carded a one over par for his round on the second day but he remains just four shy of the leaders.
One of the leading pack is Scottie Scheffler, and McIlroy has admitted that he used the world number one as a barometer for where his own game was heading.
Rory McIlroy makes comment about Scottie Scheffler after day two at The Travelers
With windy conditions playing such a big part in proceedings at The Travelers, a score of one over was never going to be too bad.
Indeed, for McIlroy, it’s something he’s happy with and talking about the conditions, he admitted that he did well to battle back.
“Yes, all of the above. I felt like I battled back pretty well. Got off to a rough start, 3-over through 4, 3-over through 7. To get it back somewhat close to even par for the day was good. Yeah, I battled well. I hit some good shots and held it together when it could have got away from me early in the round,” McIlroy said.
“The ball on 17, I was on the downslope in the bunker and I was afraid of hitting it fat and just hitting it straight into the water in front of me. I caught it a little skinny, and thankfully it skipped through, and I still made a bogey, but it probably saved me a shot by skipping out.
“It was a little fortunate, but it was a — 17, those holes — even 15 was playing sort of tricky, but 17 from that high tee box, it was a tough tee shot. You saw mine — I felt like the wind didn’t hit mine, goes in the left trap. Wind gets Keegan’s too much, goes in the water, and the wind was so gusty that sometimes the wind got the ball and sometimes it didn’t.”
McIlroy was then asked about his mindset as he was three over through four holes. However, he admitted he’d glanced at Scottie Scheffler’s scoring and had faith he was not far off.
“No, I got fortunate with my putt on 5 for par. It felt like that was going to miss left, and it ended up going in. Then I knew there was some gettable holes. Two par-5s, a couple of short par-4s. I sort of tried to stay as patient as possible,” The Masters winner added.
“When I dropped back to 3, I saw Scottie had got to 11. I was like, oh, felt like a long way to sort of climb my way back up. But then I made a birdie to get to 4 and I saw Scottie dropped back to 9 and I was like, oh, I don’t feel like I’m too far away again. The conditions today definitely bunched the entire field together, and should make for an exciting weekend.”
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We’re reaching the business end of the Paris Masters, as eight players become four in the French capital. Jannik Sinner is the overwhelming favourite to lift the trophy after Carlos Alcaraz was dumped out by Cameron Norrie in the Spaniard’s opening match. Norrie was then beaten by Valentin Vacherot, whose amazing 10-match winning streak at Masters 1000 level came to an end when he lost to Felix Auger-Aliassime.
Canadian star Auger-Aliassime will face Alexander Bublik in the semis. Bublik defeated Alex de Minaur, who is among those to have already qualified for the year-end ATP Finals. Sinner is through to his first Paris Masters semi-final after beating Ben Shelton. He’ll face defending champion Alexander Zverev, who survived a tough match against Daniil Medvedev.
Novak Djokovic is not involved in the Paris Masters, having decided to skip the event for the second year in a row, but he has learned his fate in the draw of next week’s ATP 250 in Athens. And over in Riyadh, the WTA Finals are about to get underway.
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