{"id":8988,"date":"2025-06-05T17:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/canadian-open-rory-mcilroy-left-trailing-after-level-par-opening-round-in-first-tournament-since-pga-championship-golf-news\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:35:48","slug":"canadian-open-rory-mcilroy-left-trailing-after-level-par-opening-round-in-first-tournament-since-pga-championship-golf-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/canadian-open-rory-mcilroy-left-trailing-after-level-par-opening-round-in-first-tournament-since-pga-championship-golf-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Open: Rory McIlroy left trailing after level-par opening round in first tournament since PGA Championship | Golf News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Rory McIlroy was left with an early deficit at the Canadian Open after shooting a stuttering level-par opening round on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Playing his first tournament since a disappointing showing at the PGA Championship last month, McIlroy recovered from a slow start with three successive birdies around the turn to move under par, but bogeyed his penultimate hole to post 70.<\/p>\n

As early starter McIlroy finished his round, with half the field just starting out, the Masters champion was left trailing clubhouse leader Taylor Pendrith by five shots as the Canadian produced a superb 65.<\/p>\n

McIlroy, playing the back nine first at TPC Toronto, started with two pars before a poor error from little more than a 100 yards out on the fairway at the 12th hole led to a bogey.<\/p>\n

He would drop further off the pace at the tough 17th as a drive into the rough left him a 20-foot putt for par, which he failed to convert.<\/p>\n

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However, the Northern Irishman responded immediately by taking advantage of the course’s two par-five holes.<\/p>\n

He got himself in strong positions off the tee to leave tap-in birdies at both, before making it three in a row by rolling in an 11-foot putt at the second.<\/p>\n

The streak could, and perhaps should, have continued as McIlroy set up birdie chances at the next four holes, but failed to take any of them before finally holing a putt to stay one-under at the par-three seventh.<\/p>\n

The respite was only temporary as a duffed chip from thick rough beside the eighth green meant McIlroy needed an impressive follow up chip to limit the damage to a bogey.<\/p>\n

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