Rory McIlroy is confident a post-round range session has “straightened out” his waywardness heading into the PGA Championship, just as it did during his title defence at The Masters.McIlroy saw his hopes of a record-extending fifth Truist Championship title evaporate with a third-round 75 on Saturday, his highest score on the PGA Tour since last June, where the Northern Irishman kept hitting shots to the left.
The world No 2 hit ‘100 balls’ on the range Saturday evening to try and regain control of his swing, four weeks on from having a post-round session on the practice area at Augusta National to address the ‘left miss’.
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Highlights from the final round of The Masters, where Rory McIlroy successfully defended his title
McIlroy’s practice at The Masters helped him recover from losing a six-shot halfway lead to win the Green Jacket, while his work at Quali Hollow saw him bounce back to post a final-round 67 ahead of the second major of the year.”I started to hit it left yesterday [Saturday] with everything,” McIlroy admitted after his final round. “I spent a good bit of time on the range last night just trying to straighten it out.
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“On the range this week, the wind has predominantly been off the left. I think when you hit a lot of balls in a left-to-right wind you start to aim a little bit left, your club face can get a little bit closed at impact just to try to counteract that wind.
“Hitting balls the last five or six days in that left-to-right wind on the range I just started to miss some left on the course. I was trying to figure it out a little bit on the range last night, which I felt like I did and I hit the ball much better.”
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