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It was an adventurous round but one that ended the way Rory McIlroy wanted as the No. 3 player in the world shot a 5-under 67 to get in the mix at the 2024 BMW PGA Championship in Surrey, England. McIlroy,

Rory McIlroy’s weird year continued on Thursday in the first round of the DP World Tour’s 2024 BMW PGA Championship.

The mishap didn’t affect the shot – the ball still plopped down 10 feet away from the cup, for a two-putt birdie – but it was the first time that McIlroy could recall that happening in competition.

Rory McIlroy once threw his 3-wood in frustration at the 2016 British Open at Royal Troon and broke it, and there was that time at the 2015 WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral when he angrily threw his club in the lake on the eighth hole, but the club damage that happened on Thursday during the DP World Tour’s BMW Championship was not his fault.

Maybe Rory McIlroy’s luck is changing. In his first round since losing the Irish Open in agonising scenes on Sunday, the world No 3 watched in disbelief as he hit an approach shot to seven feet – but only after the head of his nine-iron flew off down the fairway.