Despite whiff, Rory McIlroy survives Australian Open cut as Min Woo Lee, Adam Scott contend
Not before a bit of back-nine drama at Royal Melbourne, Rory McIlroy has made the weekend at the Australian Open after shooting a 3-under 68 on Friday.
Not before a bit of back-nine drama at Royal Melbourne, Rory McIlroy has made the weekend at the Australian Open after shooting a 3-under 68 on Friday.
U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun converted two of his three eagle chances, Cameron Young shot 30 on the back nine and Hideki Matsuyama was bogey-free, all of them part of another five-way tie for the lead Friday in the Hero World Challenge.
Tee times and TV times for the third round of the Hero World Challenge.
Cameron Smith feels there’s no place like home with the former world No.2 finding some timely form to challenge for his first Australian Open title.
Drawcard Rory McIlroy wants to finish with a bang after his hopes of challenging for for a second Australian Open title were derailed by a banana peel.
The last round tee-times are in, and Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (-14) will head out in the final group with Cameron Smith and Si Woo Kim (both -12). Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee (both -10) will play together two groups back and are well within striking distance as we head into championship Sunday in the Australian Open.
Si Woo Kim, coming to contend the Australian Open, slid under the radar.
Rory McIlroy has battled heat, wind, rain, clutching ti-tree and children squealing like banshees for his autograph. Yet nothing in his long career could have prepared him for what the golf gods threw at him in round three of the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.
Scottie Scheffler has lost the lead at the halfway stage of the Hero World Challenge after making a rare double bogey.
I find there are few better feelings as a golfer than peeling the plastic off the face of a new set of irons. From your first full set to doing it for the 5th, 10th, or 100th time. It is an instant serotonin boost that never gets old.
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