Battling McIlroy misses 3rd straight cut
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June 3, 2012, Sunday
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US Open champion Rory McIlroy missed his third successive cut worldwide at the Memorial tournament in Dublin, Ohio, on Friday.
The world No. 2 battled to a 7-over 79 in cold, wet and windy conditions at Muirfield Village Golf Club, finishing well down the second-round leaderboard at 6-over 150.
McIlroy failed to record a single birdie and wound up with two double-bogeys, one at the par-5 11th where he remarkably hit a shot backwards into water and another at the 14th, where he drove into water.
The 23-year-old covered the back nine in 5-over 41 to miss the cut by three shots.
"I got off to a decent start and had a couple opportunities there early for birdies and didn't take them," McIlroy told reporters after also recording three bogeys in the second round.
"I hit some good shots, it just seems like every time I go out there I make one or two big numbers and that sort of throws me, a couple of doubles on the back nine.
"Those big numbers are killing me. I just need to get those off the card and I'll be okay."
McIlroy had previously missed the cut at the PGA Tour's elite Players Championship earlier this month and then failed to advance at the European Tour's flagship PGA Championship in Wentworth, England, last week.
Meanwhile, Rory Sabbatini played bogey-free over his final 12 holes, and despite missing a 5-foot birdie putt on the 18th, put together a 3-under 69 to take a one-shot lead over a surging Tiger Woods (69) going into the weekend.
Sabbatini was at 6-under 138, the highest score to lead the Memorial in 22 years.
The world No. 2 battled to a 7-over 79 in cold, wet and windy conditions at Muirfield Village Golf Club, finishing well down the second-round leaderboard at 6-over 150.
McIlroy failed to record a single birdie and wound up with two double-bogeys, one at the par-5 11th where he remarkably hit a shot backwards into water and another at the 14th, where he drove into water.
The 23-year-old covered the back nine in 5-over 41 to miss the cut by three shots.
"I got off to a decent start and had a couple opportunities there early for birdies and didn't take them," McIlroy told reporters after also recording three bogeys in the second round.
"I hit some good shots, it just seems like every time I go out there I make one or two big numbers and that sort of throws me, a couple of doubles on the back nine.
"Those big numbers are killing me. I just need to get those off the card and I'll be okay."
McIlroy had previously missed the cut at the PGA Tour's elite Players Championship earlier this month and then failed to advance at the European Tour's flagship PGA Championship in Wentworth, England, last week.
Meanwhile, Rory Sabbatini played bogey-free over his final 12 holes, and despite missing a 5-foot birdie putt on the 18th, put together a 3-under 69 to take a one-shot lead over a surging Tiger Woods (69) going into the weekend.
Sabbatini was at 6-under 138, the highest score to lead the Memorial in 22 years.
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