Rory McIlroy begins second round of U.S. Open with two double bogeys in first three holes
After opening in 4-over 74, Rory McIlroy needed a good start Friday to get back in the U.S. Open mix.
Didn't happen.
McIlroy's tee shot at the par-4 first finished in an impossible lie in the left fairway bunker. He chopped out into the thick grass and played his third shot into the greenside rough.
McIlroy eventually carded a double-bogey 6 to fall to 6 over. He parred the second but again made double at the par-4 third — again driving into a fairway bunker — and fell outside the projected cut line at 8 over.
McIlroy, who missed the cut last week in Canada, hasn't missed back-to-back cuts in a Tour season since May 2012. He has only three missed cuts in his last 21 majors starts.
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