Finally at a PGA Tour venue that he recognizes, Rory McIlroy didn't waste any time moving up the leaderboard.
McIlroy hasn't factored much in the first two weeks since the PGA Tour's return, fading during the final round at Colonial and scrambling to make the cut at the RBC Heritage. But he had made a total of one prior appearance at either course, and he viewed his largely middling play through a different lens as a result.
"I deemed the last two weeks as successes," McIlroy said. "I hadn't been to Colonial before. I hadn't been to Hilton Head in over a decade.