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Rory McIlroy starts 3 over through two holes, rallies for under-par round at WMPO

The temperature at TPC Scottsdale had just crept into the 50s when Rory McIlroy teed off at 8 a.m. local time in Round 1 of the Waste Management Phoenix Open. It was a chilly reception in more ways than one for the world No. 6 in his tournament debut.

McIlroy knocked his opening tee shot on the par-4 10th, 348 yards into the left native area. His second shot finished in a front, greenside bunker.

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McIlroy then went bunker to bunker, left his fourth shot short of the green and took two more swipes for a double-bogey 6.