Rory McIlroy's near-perfect PGA round on perfect day provided perfect escape
You can get lost in golf as you can get lost in a dream.
Rory McIlroy in the third round of the PGA Championship at Aronimink. getty images NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Let’s do an exercise in elevation here.
Shall we? It’s getting near three o’clock on Saturday afternoon and here’s Rory McIlroy on 17, the last of Aronimink ’s show-us-what-you-got par-3s. We’re looking down at the Masters champion, the only man in the world who can win the single-year Grand Slam in 2026.
You can see the wee button on the top of his Nike baseball cap. His shirt tails are more out than in. Rory is at the dead center of your clock dial here, let’s just say.
Viewed that way, Brooks Koepka , McIlroy’s third-round playing partner, is at 10 o’clock, having already sauntered over to the 18th tee, and for a few longish moments McIlroy is standing all alone on the 17th green, not moving, not doing anything but holding a putter and looking at the hole, seemingly lost in time and space. He had just made a bogey, a good one, all things considered. From where he was in one (fried-egg lie in a greenside trap) and two (nasty lie in lush greenside rough)?
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