Houston Open: Rory McIlroy makes ‘pedestrian’ start as Scottie Scheffler opens bogey-free in major warm-up | Golf News

RORY MCILROY started a slow start to its final event, PgA Tour, before the Master through Coolsing 70, in the opening of the Texas Children’s Houston Open.

Fedexcup leader, who has already won at AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-O and players this season, has chosen for the first time in Houston since 2014 to prepare for his attempt to complete the Grand Slam career in Ugsta National.

Mcilroy – played in the morning wave – mixed birds with many ghosts on Par -70 planning at the Memorial Park Golf Stadium, with a frustrating day on the vegetables that he sees is making only 49 feet of places, leaving five strikes from the first leaders.

World No. 2 – Starting from the ninth successor – eight feet were lost to save the fourth place in the fourteenth place and failed to benefit from the sixteenth of the sixteenth century, before retracting its first plane in the day in third place by dropping a shot the next day.

Mcilroy remained equal until he fly eighth in the age of five-his before the last day-where the 35-year-old needed Mohsen’s performance on Friday to ensure that he avoids lost cutting since open.

“I think a little infantry is a good way to describe it,” McLeroy said. “We had to deal with these conditions early, rainy and not very nice to play in it.

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“Make a few Par to save early from that I needed, then I got a few opportunities in the second nine there that I did not turn.

“Yes, a kind of story of two halves. I felt that I was mostly defending in the first nine, then I feel I left a couple there in the last nine.”

Taylor Bendrith, Keith Mitchell, Ryan Gerard and Alejandro Tustti all share the lead in five below, while the European Rider Cup hopes Victor Perez and Rasmos Hoggard in the first group in the first group.

Scotti Shifler is another shot after a start -free start, with the No. 1 World – Searching for Winning before Marriage in this season before his defense in the title in Ugusta National next month – recording three juices on his tour.

“I felt that I started playing a little better at the back,” Shifler said. “I was on the first ninth that I was getting a little bit but I am still publishing today’s degree. The conditions were very difficult there today with rain and wind, so it is generally good to keep a clean card.”

The first round was suspended due to darkness at 7.28 pm local time (12.28 pm GMT), with Taylor Dixon – two of the lead with three holes to play – among those who are unable to finish.

Harry Hall from England has published two of 68 and Riki Fowler – plays with Shevler – sitting with another stroke, while defending the hero Stephen Gayjir besides Mcilroy at the level level.

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