It is not a bad way to bounce, Rory Mcilroy.
The Irishman of the North achieved Birdie in the second hole of the 5th hole on Friday at Augusta National after taking a second shot behind a tree when the second round of the 2025 Masters began.
Mcilroy, looking to make a ground after two double bogeys in the back of the nine Thorsday, played his ball near a trunk before sinking a putt in the fourth shot to finish 1 low torque.
He paid in the next five holes.
Mcilroy, looking for his first victory of the Masters and a Grand Slam of his career, had a burning beginning on Thursday in the first round, making Bird Times in the first 14 holes and route to a 4 -low torque score.
Things collapsed shortly after Mcilroy, 35, triggered a double pair or double bogeys in torque 5 15 and par 4th.
He finished the day in an even 72 and rejected interview requests after the round.
Through Friday from seven holes, Mcilroy was tied in 16 in 1 bass, while English Justin Rose leads 8-slow to 10.
The best Mcilroy final in Masters arrived in 2022 when he took the second place of Scottie Scheffler, who is chasing his third green jacket after winning again in 2024.
Scheffler, 28, finished Thursday’s opening round with 4 children under 68. Hi tees, Friday at 1:23 pm
Mcilroy arrived at a hot season by winning the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February. He followed that victory with his second players championship in March.
“I think it’s time for Rory won [a Masters]”He said the legend of golf and the six -time champion of the teachers Jack Nicklaus, who spent time with Mcilroy in Florida last week before the first older of the year.
“I sat with Rory last week and had lunch, and we were talking, and said:” Rory, I know you prepared for Augusta; Tell me how you are going to play the golf course. “
“We get used to overcome it to shoot. And [when] He arrived with the round, and I opened my mouth. (Then) I said: ‘Well, I would not change anything. That is exactly the way I would try to play the golf course. “
Mcilroy last won an important championship in 2014 in the PGA Championship.
The teachers conclude on Sunday.
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