Rory McIlroy at US Open 2015: Sunday Leaderboard Score and Twitter Reaction

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Published: June 21, 2015

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After three frustrating rounds, Rory McIlroy finally tamed Chambers Bay. Now he'll sit in the clubhouse and see whether it was too little, too late.

McIlroy fired a four-under six, tying the best overall score in Round 4 and putting himself two shots free of anyone else who has finished his round. The world No. 1 will spend the rest of his evening watching Branden Grace, Dustin Johnson, Jason Day and Jordan Spieth, who comprise the day's final groups and have quite a bit time remaining in their respective rounds.



For now, McIlroy can bask in the glory of finally cracking the Chambers Bay code.

Sitting four over after failing to mount a third-round charge, McIlroy was considered all but an afterthought coming into Sunday. He had barely scraped by to make the weekend after going 72-72 before coming out and missing opportunity after opportunity in his third round. Even McIlroy seemed resigned to the fact he was out of contention.



“[I’ll] keep trying and keep going, give it a good go [Sunday]," McIlroy said after the round, per Mark Cannizzaro of the New York Post. "I’m glad my name is on the trophy at least once and I’ll try to make it twice at some point.’’

Early on, it looked exactly like McIlroy would merely be giving it the old college try. A birdie on the par-four second was his only under-par score for the first six holes, as the missed opportunities that plagued his third round carried over. He came within inches of birdieing the third and missed two more opportunities on No. 4 and No. 6.

But a sterling stretch of play starting on No. 7 changed the course of McIlroy's round and thrust him into the leaderboard conversation. He nailed a 14-foot birdie putt on the seventh and took advantage of one of the course's two par fives at the eighth, making the turn at 32. Those back-to-back birdies began a stretch of four in s...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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