PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Rory McIlroy moves into the weekend closer to “cracking the code.”
That’s what the world No. 1 called the challenge The Players Championship presents him.
The TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course isn’t the kind of test you imagine playing to McIlroy’s strengths, not with the claustrophobic confines limiting his power and the use of his favorite club, his Thor’s hammer. As much as McIlroy loves to hit driver, he has learned to mostly leave it in his bag making his way around with a game plan more conservative than he’s accustomed.