The Holywood man is the only three-time winner of the FedEx Cup after overturning a six-shot deficit in the final round of the same tournament last year and is aiming to win it once again
Rory McIlroy said he was “over the moon” to be placed three strokes behind the leaders at the Tour Championship after suffering muscle spasms going into the tournament.He said after his round: “I was at the bottom of a squat, a body-weight squat, and my whole lower back spasmed, seized up. I couldn’t move. I honestly couldn’t address the ball this time yesterday.
McIlroy is sitting on seven under par in tied seventh after he finished the day with the same score as he started with, hitting four birdies and just as many bogeys.“And it got progressively a little tighter as I went, but it will hopefully get loosened up here and just another 20, or 18 hours of recovery and go again.”
There is a three-way tie for the lead between Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley and Viktor Hovland on 10 under par. England’s Matt Fitzpatrick is even with McIlroy in seventh spot while Tyrell Hatton is one stroke behind the pair.
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