In the end McIlroy would finish Sunday's final round with a one-under 69 and a tie for seventh ahead of Block who would sign for a 71 leaving him tied for 15th.īut it was not the kind of result the world number three had expected from himself at the year's second major.Īn over-the-moon Block will return home to his day job on Monday at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club in Mission Viejo, California, while it is back to the drawing board for McIlroy has he tries to figure out how to get his game back on track.Īfter missing the cut at the Players Championship and Masters, McIlroy took time off to refocus but still cannot seem to get dialed in. "When it's your week, it's your week in a way, and I think with the way the week's went for him, it was a fitting way to cap off his PGA Championship." "I haven't really liked the look of it (15th hole), and Michael stands up and hits this lovely little draw-back in off the left wind, and you know, ball goes straight in the hole. "My playing partner today hit a couple memorable golf shots, though. "Probably not a ton of memorable golf shots hit," said McIlroy about his own play. ROCHESTER, New York, May 21 (Reuters) - Rory McIlroy could not recall any of the shots he made during a grinding PGA Championship but said he will remember at least one by Michael Block, his final round playing partner on Sunday.Įven when not at the top of his game like he was this week at Oak Hill, it takes something special to upstage the charismatic Northern Irishman, and Block had just the thing a hole-in-one on the par-three 15 that dazzled the golf world.
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