Rory McIlroy slips into fifth-place tie at Dubai after 74
Rory McIlroy waves as he walks off the 18th inexperienced throughout the last spherical of The Gamers Championship PGA golf tournment Sunday, March 16, 2025 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Seaside, Fla. Rory McIlroy and J.J. Spaun tied at 12 below par for the event and can face a three-hole mixture playoff on Monday at 9 a.m. [Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union] First-round chief Rory McIlroy dropped right into a tie for fifth place with a second-round 74 on Friday on the season-opening Dubai Invitational.
The Northern Irishman offset two birdies with 5 bogeys, together with the seventeenth and 18th holes on the Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Membership. At 2-under par, McIlroy is three pictures behind co-leaders Nacho Elvira of Spain (68 on Friday) and Eire’s Shane Lowry (68).
Spain’s David Puig (72) and England’s Marcus Armitage (70) share third place at 3-under. McIlroy, the World No. 2, is degree with France’s Antoine Rozner (72), Spain’s Angel Ayora (72) and South Africa’s Thriston Lawrence (71).
Defending champion Tommy Fleetwood of England plummeted right into a tie for thirty ninth after carding a 7-over 78 on Friday. He double-bogeyed the 218-yard, par-3 eighth gap.
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