After shooting 18 under at the Travelers Champion, Rory McIlroy was … not impressed by TPC River Highlands.
McIlroy completed connected for seventh as Keegan Bradley won in Cromwell, Connecticut at 23 under.
” Sadly innovation has actually passed this course by, right,” McIlroy stated after Sunday’s last round “It sort of has actually made it outdated, specifically as soft as it has actually been with a bit of rain that we had.
” Like the discussions returning to, you understand, restricting the golf ball and things like that, when we concern courses like this they simply do not provide the obstacle that they utilized to.”
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TPC River Highlands (6,852 backyards) is the second-shortest course on the PGA Trip this season, behind Port Royal, which hosts the Butterfield Bermuda Champion on Nov. 9.
Rickie Fowler and Denny McCarthy each shot 60 throughout the Travelers. Patrick Cantlay included a 61.
Asked if there was an option for TPC River Highlands, McIlroy stated:
” You can grow the rough up and hope you get some company conditions so it gets difficult. I believe the plan for an actually great golf course isn’t growing the rough up and making the fairways tight. That lots everybody together. The plan is something like LACC where you have large targets, however if you miss it’s chastening. This isn’t that sort of golf course. It’s not that sort of design. It does not have the land to do that.
” So, you understand, regrettably when you get soft conditions like this and you have actually got the very best gamers worldwide, this is what’s going to take place.”
Golfweek added to this report.
