Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland) is not very good at playing.
McIlroy was defeated by Ian Polter (England) by six holes in the first match of the World Golf Championship (WGC) Dell Technology Match Play group stage held at the Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas on the 25th (Korean time).
In match play, the 6th hole defeat, which ended in the 13th hole, is hardly seen in a confrontation between top players. In a word, it means that he got down on his knees without even trying to use his strength.
It was a shock that McIlroy lost to Polter, the 66th place in the world, by such a big difference, but the performance he showed on this day was incredibly messy.
Of the eight holes Poulter won, four holes, half of which McIlroy couldn’t protect the par, gave it away.
In the 9th-13th holes where Paulter won five consecutive holes, McKilroy wrote down two bogies without a buddy, and in the par 5 hole that Pauler put on the green after two times, he hit the green only four times. .
In the 4th hole (par 3), he played 3 putts from a distance of 6m, and in the 5th hole (par 4), the tee shot was bent to the left and the ball fell into the swimming pool of the house next to the course.
After losing the cut at the Players Championship, McIlroy was conscious of Bryson Dishambo (USA) that the swing was broken down further down the distance.
He recently hired Pete Cohen as a new coach instead of Michael Bannon, who has been watching swings since the age of eight, and started correcting his swing.
“I think McKiloy is adjusting his swing,” says Polter. There were several shots pulled to the left, but it seems that he was trying to hit a cut shot.”
“Where will McKilloy go? I will soon recover my skills,” he added.
McIlroy didn’t respond to reporters’ questions after being defeated by Polter.