Bogeys on three of the last four holes dashes Rory McIlroy's chances at the U.S. Open, but the world No. 2 says he 'got over it pretty quickly.'
NORTH BERWICK, Scotland -- More than three weeks after his collapse in the final three holes of the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2,a 1-stroke victory and his second U.S. Open title after the LIV Golf League captain hit a chip shot from 55 yards away in a fairway bunker to about 4 feet and made a par putt to finish 6 under.
"Like halfway down the first putt, it looked like it could be a birdie, and it ran a foot by where I thought it was going to finish," McIlroy said."Then I marked it, and then Patrick was hitting his putt and he can take his time. Obviously, greens are tough. It's the end of a Sunday at the U.S. Open. Like you have to be really deliberate in what you're doing.
"So I was probably playing it, I don't know, like two, two-and-a-half cups left, whatever it was. There was a lot of swing to it, especially with how easy I was hitting it. Like I said, if it was match play and the next one didn't matter, I would have approached the putt differently."
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