A roller-coaster round ended in a valley for Rory McIlroy on Thursday at the 100th Open de France. A valley filled with very tall grass.
McIlroy was 1 under par playing the par-4 seventh, his 16th hole of the day, when an errant tee shot ended up in some ghastly rough. It took two swings to fully extricate his ball. McIlroy’s did very well to make a bogey on the hole, muscling out his third shot to the back of the green and two-putting for a 5.
That was one of four dropped shots for McIlroy at Le Golf National in Paris.