ORLANDO, Fla. -- The door that Rory McIlroy keeps knocking on refuses to open. Sure, it would help if the four-time major champion did more to barge through it, but he's maintained a modest, almost stately approach to adding tournament hardware to his collection, only to come up empty.
Sunday offered another example at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, where for the ninth time over the past 14 months McIlroy played well enough to earn a place in the final group, only to see someone else celebrating a victory.
To be sure, reigning Open champion Francesco Molinari put a number on him Sunday, shooting an 8-under-par 64 at Bay Hill to come from five strokes back of third-round leader Matt Fitzpatrick.