Golf-McIlroy shook his head to a weak start of the PGA Championship

By Frank Pingue Charlotte, North Carolina, May 15 (Reuters) -Rory McIlroy’s record at Quail Hollow is exceptionally impressive, but it had no influence in the first round of the PGA Championship on Thursday, where very little in his first big start since the completion of the career was Grand Slam. Much was made about McIlroy’s chances this week, given his success in Quail Hollow, and because he ended an almost 11-year-old drought at Majors with a Masters victory last month that freed him from the burden of chasing the career in the career. But McIlroy spent a large part of his day saving poor shots from the tea-just four of the 14 Fairways-and selected a three-over Par 74 which included a double Bogey, three Bogeys and two birds. When all this was done, McIlroy did not address the media and plan to go to the runway to work on his game before Friday’s second round, where he is in danger of missing the cut at a PGA championship for the first time since 2016. The 36-year-old McIlroy, who started his day on the back nine, began when he reached two birds with a BOGE countries. Three-hole stretch known as the Green Mile. McIlroy’s tea on the 16th shot was on his way to the water on the left before coming to rest in thick rough and from where he barely could progress his ball with his next swing on his way to a double bogey. He almost cut into 17th place for bird, where his tea shot rolled off the green and stopped just short of the slope that leads right into the water. McIlroy got another break in 18th where his tea shot in a thick rough, about two club lengths of the winding Creek dropped over the entire length of the hole. The five times big winner then shook his head after a Bogey on the first four first hole where he couldn’t succeed in getting up and down a green side bunker for his second Bogey. He concluded his day disappointingly with a closing Bogey after missing another Fairway, who left him against a tree for his second shot and could not make a full corridor. (Reporting by Frank Pingue editing by Christian Radnedge)