AUGUSTA — Rory McIlroy arrived at the 10th tee, looked up at the leaderboard, took a drink and exhaled. He looked down. Then he looked back up at the leaderboard, its numbers forming a message, like a computer code: He had gone from chaser to chase-ee.
McIlroy began the third round 3-3-3-3-3-3, rocketing from 6 under to 11 under. On the par-5 8th hole, he found one of the deepest bunkers on the course and made his first bogey of the tournament. Now here he was, 10 under for the week, 27 holes away from (move along, folks, nothing to see here).
