OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Rory McIlroy doesn’t need fans to help him keep his head in the game at the BMW Championship. Olympia Fields is so tough that it won’t allow anything but his full attention on every shot.
McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay made their share of mistakes on Friday and shrugged them off, because that’s bound to happen on the toughest test the PGA Tour has seen this year. By the end of another steamy afternoon south of Chicago, they were the sole survivors to beat par.
One week after McIlroy admitted to going through the motions without spectators around to provide the cheers, he had a one-under-par 69 and shared the 36-hole lead with Cantlay.