Rory McIlroy suffered a heartbreaking loss at the U.S. Open on Sunday.
NBC Bryson DeChambeau won the U.S. Open on Sunday with an incredible, heroic, memorable up-and-down from the front bunker on No.
18 at Pinehurst No. 2. He made par to win in the most dramatic possible fashion.
But Rory McIlroy lost it in the most painful possible fashion, too. When he birdied the par-4 13th, his fourth birdie in a five-hole stretch, McIlroy reached 8 under par and opened up a two-shot lead over DeChambeau. Nearly everything that followed was misery.
At the par-3 15th, McIlroy’s approach shot hit the middle of the green but bounded over the back and settled up against a tuft of Pinehurst’s wiregrass. He had to improvise from there and chopped one up to 30 feet and settle for a two-putt bogey. RORY ALSO THREE-PUTTS 😮 McIlroy and DeChambeau are now tied at -6.
pic.twitter.com/e9n8G9rRC5 It got worse.
At the par-4 16th McIlroy played his approach to 25 feet and sent that birdie putt trickling two-and-a-half feet past the hole. Stats guru Justin Ray reported that this year, McIlroy has been 496 for 496 from inside three feet — but he hit this putt too hard, too far left or both. It caught the edge and spun away.
Bogey again. McIlroy executed a nifty up-and-down from the greenside bunker at the par-3 17th and arrived at the 18th tee tied for the lead. He sent driver down the left side, drew a tough lie, chopped one just short of the green and played a chip shot to leave a slippery left-.
