Dell Championship: Rory McIlroy misses cut as Jon Rahm leads in Boston
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McIlroy had six bogeys and two double bogeys over his two rounds
Dell Championship second-round leaderboard |
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-9 J Rahm (Sp); -7 A Hadwin (Can), P Casey (Eng), K Stanley (US), K Streelman (US); -6 G Murray (US), P Mickelson (US), B DeChambeau (US), M Leishman (Aus) |
Selected others: -5 J Rose (Eng), J Spieth (US); -4 D Johnson (US), J Thomas (US); -2 S Garcia (Spa); -1 H Matsuyama (Jpn); +2 R Knox (Sco), I Poulter (Eng), J Day (Aus); +4 R McIlroy (NI) |
Defending champion Rory McIlroy's tough season continued as he missed the cut by a stroke at the Dell Championship.
The world number four from Northern Ireland, without a win in 2017, had four bogeys and a double bogey in a 74 for a four-over total in Boston.
Spaniard Jon Rahm birdied five of his final eight holes in a 66 and leads by two at nine under.
First-round leader Dustin Johnson, the world number one, had two double bogeys in a 72 and is five shots adrift.
Masters champion Sergio Garcia, one behind Johnson after the opening round, made only one birdie in a two-over-par 73 that left him at two under for the tournament.
Open champion Jordan Spieth had seven birdies in a 65 and is in a share of 10th place four shots back.
American Kyle Stanley, the world number 58, was within a shot Rahm but three-putted his final hole and shares second spot with Englishman Paul Casey - who had eight birdies in a 65 - as well as Canada's Adam Hadwin and American Kevin Streelman.
There were two holes in one in as many minutes during the second round - Grayson Murray at the eighth and Lucas Glover at the 16th.
Murray is six under and his ace came during a stretch of six holes that also contained three birdies, a double bogey and a bogey.
'I'm waiting for the season to end'
Injury-plagued McIlroy has not won a tournament for a full calendar year and has triumphed just once on the PGA Tour in almost two and a half years.
After missing the cut the second of the four FedEx Cup events, the four-time major winner has dropped to 50th in the FedEx Cup standings, with only the top 30 after the BMW Championship qualifying for the concluding Tour Championship.
Starting from the 10th, McIlroy was one under for his round through five holes before three bogeys compromised his hopes of compiling an under-par round.
A birdie four repaired some of the damage, but an ugly drive on the par-four fifth - his 14th - led to a double before a run of four pars to close.
"When you are missing both ways with your driver, it's never good. And I also made a bogey with a wedge in my hand at the first, which is sloppy," he said.
"I'm sort of waiting for the season to end and that's reflected in the way I'm playing."
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