Rory McIlroy Struggles at The Open: Can He Recover?
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00:00We'll be right back with more on that.
00:03Rory McIlroy, though, though, very different conversation.
00:07Second best price entering the tournament plus 850 to maybe
00:11snap the decade-long drought outside of the winner's circle
00:14at a major championship. A 7 over par 78 in his opening
00:20round tied for 129th after Thursday. Some updating on the
00:25leaderboard with Rory set the tee off at 10 10 a.m. Eastern
00:29time. He is tied for one 23rd. He is going to need to go low
00:34to see Saturday and the weekend at Royal Troon. And these
00:38aren't the conditions to go low with you. That's why you just
00:40can't have bad scores. And as long as you're hanging around
00:42par, you're probably going to be into this all four rounds.
00:45But when you open up with a plus 7 and as Ben says, you have
00:48to go low. They could look this guy, of course, in conditions
00:50aren't showing us to go low here. So what's going low
00:53shooting even par on a day, which is still sitting in back
00:561213 1415 shots. If he even makes it to the weekend now
01:00granted, he could have a day where he shoots three under
01:02par and gets close to that cut line, but I'm not banking on
01:04that right now. If you ask me today, a Donnie free bet is
01:07Rory going to see the weekend. Absolutely not. He didn't play
01:09well yesterday and has to play much better today, which
01:11includes going low like three or four under par. I don't see