GOLF
Rory McIlroy’s ball gets lodged between fan’s legs in Dubai
World No 2 focused on his game, rather than boardroom politics, at the DP World Tour Championship
McIlroy arrived at his ball to find it resting on a fan’s crossed legs, then joked about hitting it before taking a free drop
SKY SPORTS
After the politics in the boardroom and the rant in the parking lot, Rory McIlroy said he just wanted to play golf. It must have seemed blissfully simple until the moment his ball came to rest between the knees of a spectator sitting with her legs stretched out on a grassy bank in Dubai. Then he hit a ball off a rock and a bridge on his way to a par. He signed for a 71, four shots off the lead at the DP World Tour Championship. This is now his preferred kind of power struggle.
McIlroy inevitably faced post-round questions about why he had resigned from the PGA Tour policy board. With the PGA and DP World Tours still trying to thrash out a
