Rory McIlroy leaves the US Open instantly after Pinehurst’s humiliating collapse

A badly shell-shocked Rory McIlroy left Pinehurst instantly after a humiliating collapse by the closed holes of the US Open noticed one other main title agonizingly slip from his grasp.

With the match at his mercy and a two-shot lead with 5 holes to play, McIlroy finally collapsed with bogeys on three of his remaining 4 holes, together with a heartbreaker on the 18th.

The Northern Irishman amazingly missed from two toes, six inches on par on the sixteenth and below 4 toes on the 18th to endure one other heartbreaking finish to his 10-year quest for a fifth Main.

McIlroy didn’t hold round to talk to the media and was photographed by golf reporter Jason Sobel packing his golf equipment into the automobile after Bryson DeChambeau was assured of victory.

NBC, the match’s US broadcaster, mentioned McIlroy declined to be interviewed.

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Video additionally emerged of a devastated McIlroy watching DeChambeau wrap up glory on the membership. It was an ending that could possibly be thought of extra painful than the collapse of the 2011 Masters.

However this matter shall be determined by analysts within the coming days. As DeChambeau put his palms on the trophy, McIlroy’s tires spun within the gravel of the parking zone as he fled to lick his wounds.

It represents a disastrous finish to a different distinctive week for McIlroy, who introduced on Tuesday night time that he had annulled his divorce from his spouse, Erika.

In a courtroom submitting dated Might 13 — days earlier than the PGA Championship at Valhalla — his lawyer mentioned the wedding was irretrievably dissolved.

“There have been rumors about my private life lately, which is unlucky,” McIlroy mentioned within the assertion. “It is a idiot’s recreation to answer each rumor. Over the previous weeks, Erika and I’ve realized that our greatest future is as a household collectively. Fortuitously, we have now resolved our variations and are wanting ahead to a recent begin.

However for such a big portion of Sunday’s remaining spherical, it appeared as if McIlroy was about to put in writing a fairytale ending to such a turbulent chapter of his life.

McIlroy began the day three pictures behind DeChambeau, made an ideal begin with a 20-foot birdie putt on his first shot and located himself only one shot behind when DeChambeau missed his fourth shot.

McIlroy was two pictures forward as he walked to the 14th tee. The “Rory” chants acquired louder and DeChambeau might hear them.

McIlroy took bogey from behind the fifteenth inexperienced, however stayed forward when DeChambeau, enjoying within the group behind him, hit his first three-putt of the week on the fifteenth when he missed from 4 toes.

And right here the US Open took a painful flip for McIlroy. He missed a 30-inch putt on the sixteenth gap to get again into par. On the 18th, McIlroy’s shot landed behind the notorious wiregrass bush. It drove simply in need of the inexperienced and acquired down fantastically to 4 toes. And he missed once more.

McIlroy watched from the scoring room as DeChambeau escaped a horrible deceive the left of the golf green — a tree at his again swinging, a root in entrance of the golf ball — and hit it into the bunker.

He expertly hit a shot from the smooth sand that rolled onto the crunchy inexperienced to seal the win.

From there, Rory could not do something however pack his baggage.