PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Hitting two tee shots in the water can typically lead to disastrous consequences, but the scoreboard does not offer that detail about Rory McIlroy’s first round at the Players Championship.
The four-time major champion who won the PGA Tour’s flagship event in 2019 got hot early, made 10 birdies around the TPC Sawgrass course, and saw his name atop the leaderboard on Thursday despite those two water balls that led to a bogey and a double bogey.
All in all, that’s pretty good, right?
