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Paris (AFP) - Rory McIlory gets acquainted with Chambers Bay golf course on Saturday ahead of next week's US Open confident that some time away from the game will have done him a power of good.
The world number one won the Wells Fargo tournament in Charlotte in mid-May on the back of a superb 61 in the third round.
But oddly he followed that up by returning to Europe and enduring back-to-back missed cuts at the BMW PGA Championship and at the Irish Open on home turf.