Rory McIlroy still consumed by jitters in attempt to end seven-year major drought

[ASFN Admin]

Rory McIlroy’s seven-year itch at majors is reaching the pathological stage. So desperate is he to end the wait, and so fretful is he that golf’s infinite cruelties are conspiring against his cause, he became distracted on the sixth tee here as a rogue butterfly fluttered about his face. Sure enough, he fanned his iron to the par-three into a greenside bunker, then whipped around accusingly to blame the offending insect. Where once he was a model of devil-may-care jauntiness, he has, at these mo

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