“It’s such an elevated tee that the ball’s in the air and you know it’s on line but you don’t know whether to say go or sit or spin or release or whatever. It’s sort of weird, you’re looking at it and you’re sort of watching where it might land on the green and the thing just disappears,” McIlroy said afterward. “Honestly, it was lucky, I don’t see many balls nowadays go straight in the hole and stay in the hole. Pretty fortunate because it could have come out and went back in the water or do anything. It was a good swing, good wedge shot.”
