Rory McIlroy’s three-wood already wasn’t in the best shape, so it had no chance when he chucked the club to the ground in frustration after a bad shot at the British Open.
It snapped in two.
Add it to the list of club-throwing episodes from one of the world’s top golfers.
McIlroy had slipped out of realistic contention during the third round at Royal Troon when he pushed right his approach shot from the middle of the fairway. He reacted by hurling the three-wood to the ground in front of him, and the head flew off.
“The club head came loose on it earlier on the week and I had to get the head re-glued. So it was probably partly to do with that, and partly the throw as well,” he said.
McIlroy was already frustrated after making three bogeys in his first five holes. He dropped another shot at No. 15 after letting a 3-iron from the fairway slip right, and things came to a head, so to speak, on the next hole.
“I did the exact same thing there,” McIlroy said.
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“So it was basically just a bad swing. No one likes to make the same mistake twice.
“I’ll get it reshafted tonight. The truck’s here, so I’ll have it reshafted, and all will be well in the morning.”
There’s precedent in regard to McIlroy throwing clubs. He did so at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth in 2012 and 2015, and perhaps more famously at the Cadillac Championship at Doral last year.
After hitting his second shot into the water on the par-five eighth hole, McIlroy heaved his club some 50 yards into the lake.
