‘Frustrated’ Rory Mcilroy ask rules civil servants’ ‘common sense’

The Rory Mcilroy Green-Jacket Victory-Tour still buzzes.

About six weeks after the reigning Masters champion returned to his home country for the Open Championship in Portush, Northern Ireland-where he was greeted as a triumphant Roman general who comes home from the war-mcilroy this week enjoys more worship on a three-hour drive to the Irish, the Dublin-Oara-Site Site Site, the Dublin-OaArea-Site Site, the Dublin-OaArea-Site Site, the Dublin-Leaa-Site Site, the Dublin-Leaa-Site Site, the Dublin-Leaa-Site Site, the Dublin-Site Site.

The K Club has a special meaning for McIlroy. As a 17-year-old he went to the Ryder Cup in the Posh Resort with his father Gerry and saw Europe blowing the doors of the Americans from a nine-pointed romp of nine points. A decade later, McIlroy returned to the K Club for the Irish Open and won with three, which represents what is still his only Irish open title. After his opening round One-Under 71 Thursday, McIlroy returned a part of love in his herd, in a Q&A session in a city-hall style with fans where he was wearing the green coat and sat next to replica trophies of the other three Majors. Good vibes everywhere.

Good, almost All around.

That’s because the opening round of McIlroy did not go exactly to plan. The Kubs of the K Club has been huge this week and no surprise that they were particularly swollen around the McIlroy group; He rose from the 10th Tee at 1 p.m. local time with Thiston Lawrence of South Africa and Kristoffer Reitan in Norway. Fans, reporters, camera crews, other diverse pendants-on. As is often the case with selection framework groups, the scene was a bit of a circus, which led to a slow pace of playing.

DP World Tour officials took note and – reasonable or not – put the McIlroy group on the clock “fairly early” in their round, McIlroy told reporters. “And then the first official left and then we were put on the clock for the last three holes by another.”

“I became frustrated the last pair of holes because I felt a bit rushed,” he said.

It turned out. McILROY flew on the par-4 7th hole and made Bogey. On the par-3 8th, Long Again, which led to a different bogey. He closed with a par on the 9th to shoot 71, five of the early lead shared by three players.

“I feel it is always happening,” said McIlroy about the pace -warning, “and I don’t think they use a kind of common sense in terms of, well, of course we will lose ground because we have to wait for the two camera crews that are there. They have to give us a little.”

As is the case on the PGA Tour, Slow-Play warnings on the DP World Tour are much more common than actual slow play punishment. In one X debate About the pace of the game last year, David Howell, a former DP player who is now chairman of the Tour’s Tournament Committee,: “If you are ignorant enough to ignore all slow-play rules, you can pick up a fine of two shot during the DP World Tour this year. We take slow play seriously.” He continued: “2 bad times in a week you will receive a one-off fine, if 1 of those infringements were more than 80 seconds for the 1st to play or 70 seconds if the 2nd 2 plays that is considered an est (excessive shot time), then the 2 infringements would mean that the player makes a two-shot penalty.”

However, McIlroy’s complaint is more nuanced because he and his play partners were dealing with a much more messy and chaotic environment than the rest of the field. Should it be used in these situations, or should officials at least look the other way? McIlroy seems to think so.

From slow-play warnings he said: “It happened to me quite a bit in these kinds of large groups when I come back to Europe and play, and I just let it act. Every time I return to this tour or I play in some of those [world’s No.] 1, 2, 3 groups, we are always put on the clock for the same reason. It happened with the players [in March]And I lost my S – with an official. ‘

McIlroy played that week in the first two rounds with World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and World No. 3 Xander Schauffele. McIlroy opened 67-68 and then won the title after beating JJ Spaun in a play-off.