Rory nets wild par save after pair of errant shots
A pair of errant shots weren't enough to deny Rory McIlroy's big par save on No. 4 at Shinnecock Hills.
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And now Rory coming off birdie.
Yeah, wind in out of the right.
There's a camera tower in the distance.
It's a perfect line, dead center of the fairway here.
Let's see if he hits that cut hold up against it or tries to hit one hard here, Billy Ray.
Well, if he tried to hit the cut, he double-crossed it.
That's going towards the gallery on the left side.
At 200, he's drawn a great lie here.
Probably front edge is what he's looking for, if he can get it back into the wind almost directly in from this left side of the fairway.
Ends well for this thing.
Shot way right.
Good putt, Rory.
That hits the cart path.
You all right?
This is doable, but he can dangerously hit it to where Tommy did too, so you could expect him to hit this 20 feet short of the hole.
Go, go, go.
Good shot.
Yeah, and that's kind of as expected.
I mean, that's about as aggressive as he really needed to be.
Just amazing, Billy Ray, when you get out of position off the tee, of just how much stress it puts on the rest of your game.
All of a sudden, you got these 20-footers for par just because of one missed tee shot.
There's definitely a fine line.
What a save there by McIlroy.
And to your point, the pressure in which, when you start missing fairways, the pressure it puts on a player's game to, just to save par, McIlroy came out on the right end of that one there.
