Rory McIlroy on course to miss cut at storm-hit Players Championship

Rory McIlroy appears set to miss the cut at the Players Championship, which was suspended mid-round on Friday due to storms.

A primary-round 76 at TPC Sawgrass left the Northern Irishman with an uphill battle and issues didn’t enhance in his second spherical, with McIlroy bogeying the fifth after which double bogeying the sixth earlier than a birdie to stand at six over par after 10 holes.

That is 5 photographs adrift of the projected cut mark and 14 behind joint leaders Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Adam Svensson.

None of the afternoon starters have been in a position to end their rounds, with play halted simply earlier than 4.30pm native time due to the specter of lightning and never due to resume till Saturday morning.

McIlroy started the occasion as one in all two gamers together with Scottie Scheffler who may doubtlessly overtake Jon Rahm as world primary.

The trio have been due to play collectively on Saturday however Spaniard Rahm, who tops the FedExCup standings, withdrew prior to his second spherical by way of sickness.

Scheffler fared considerably higher earlier than play was suspended, transferring to 5 below par with birdies at the ninth and tenth.

South African Bezuidenhout and Canadian Svensson have been each 4 below par for his or her rounds by way of 14 and 11 holes respectively.

They sit two photographs forward of Ben Griffin, Min Woo Lee and Collin Morikawa, with in a single day chief Chad Ramey dropping to 4 below following a disastrous seventeenth.

Unheralded Ramey, who started his spherical on the ninth gap, made the proper begin, birdieing two of his first three holes, solely to hit two balls within the water on the seventeenth and take a quadruple bogey seven.

Danny Willett is the main British participant at three below for each his spherical and general, whereas Tyrell Hatton, Justin Rose and Aaron Rai are a shot additional again.

One man counting his fortunate stars, in the meantime, is former world primary Jordan Spieth, who seemed set to miss the cut when he struck a wayward tee shot in direction of the water on his closing gap just for it to hit a spectator’s knee, bounce again onto the green and arrange an eagle.