Rory McIlroy Round 2 Highlights | 2024 Dubai Invitational

Highlights from Rory McIlroy’s second round 71 at the Dubai Invitational.

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The DP World Tour resumes its 2024 season with the first event of a five-week stretch in the Middle East as the inaugural Dubai Invitational marks the start of the International Swing. World Number Two Rory McIlroy will be at the Dubai Creek Resort this week. The Northern Irishman has enjoyed great success in middle east, claiming five of his 16 DP World Tour titles in Dubai. The 34-year-old begins the new year aiming to win the sixth Harry Vardon Trophy of his career. Six-time DP World Tour winner Tommy Fleetwood will be in Dubai this week. He’s making back-to-back appearances on the DP World Tour as the Englishman looks to build on momentum generated from an impressive 2023 season, which included his second Ryder Cup win, and a runner up finish in Dubai at the DP World Tour Championship. DP World Tour Championship winner Nicolai Højgaard will also fancy his chances this week. He’ll be looking to kick on from a successful 2023 which included victories as part of Continental Europe in the inaugural Hero Cup and Team Europe in the Ryder Cup at Marco Simone, as well as earning PGA TOUR playing privileges for 2024 via the FedEx Cup. Others to look out for are Luke Donald, Francesco Molinari and Thriston Lawrence.

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Drove into the bunker just short of the green played a magnificent little bunker shot to give himself a very easy birdie and basically just uh where he’s left it off so P pass start this the birdie part anony W yeah no Bogies yesterday and continues that Trend it’s quite an easy

Start and he takes advantage of [Applause] that oh go yeah sounded slightly thinny but even the thinny ones go pretty close what he’s playing well maoy how about that from 230 OD the strike wasn’t what he wanted but I think the result is downhill right to left breaker just a bit careful there

Rory it’s funny how sometimes you have those spots Anthony where you just see the break and you don’t even think about the pace but it looked like concerned him a bit There yeah that’s that’s a full flat pitching wedge for Roy maroy he’s come over the top of it a little bit it’s run just behind the graen I think it would have actually stopped there pitch into the little up slope and Bumble it up on top and bring

It to a standstill by the cup good light yeah got a 54 and a 60 in the bag this week almost felt like those two numbers are almost in between that sort of shot 54 be quite aggressive and the 60° almost a little bit too much height so work to be

Done yeah very good certainly paid it the respect it deser deserved but that was confidently done so good start still no Bogies for M Roy wi one miss to go too far left for Rory yeah you could tell straight away what the body body language suggested that was going to be left

Don’t tell me watch the spin oh I don’t believe it that’s a Monumental sort of mental error there especially we can see from this angle I’m a TR you have Right that’s certainly far enough you know like we spoke about this yesterday yes it’s short yes there’s going to be a lot of birdies but you know you have to finish that stuff you have a bunch of water hazards into play it’s not an easy course four six triple bogy downhill right to

Left just like that Four Shorts have gone Four Shorts have gone a seven on a pile three and Mar right is now in a four-way tie winter Smith olison the whole field will think that the scoring computer has malfunctioned there’s a bit of Contour

Behind the pin he can use to bring it to a standstill how’s that shot from there yeah that’s really good from Rory does this have a bit of pace on this uh Tim say again sorry does it have a bit of pace on this yeah a little bit Yeah to slightly

Downhill but it’s very hble and he puted beautifully yesterday can he do so again here now just a bit through the break there ferari also thought he was going to move a bit more on this so mararo hits a turnon in 37 little Fairway metal launched for

Rory maroy yes he always launches those this is all change at the minute this is getting rather exciting 258 of those to the front edge ball slightly above his feet wind off the right right so everything says draw here flag in the back left so not too bad I thought it look pretty

Good was pretty good yeah it was sweet wasn’t it that was a good swing you like that you can’t believe it’s not come off that camber yeah a little Eagle chip here for Rory good light just got to nudge it forward let it feed from right to left oh didn’t quite get the

Strike medium pace not outside the hole if you hit it firm yeah beautiful absolutely perfect kept the head of steam up the simple as the birdies I mean he’s so good isn’t he we all know that but I thought that was quite important after giving four back on one hole that was a

Chance it is reachable in to but you want to find the Fairway an island green not easy to come to out of the rough yeah that thing that needs to stay there fori that’s going to challenge the right hand sides get a good bounce stays on The Fairway all the way

Down that will definitely go for this power five in Roy maroy try to get some momentum back into this round and it’s certainly High didn’t move much in the air that’s a solid shot for maroy couldn’t really allow that ball to move right too much actually no that was a good

Shot what’s the numbers here what do we think it’s going to get there surely surely needs to get there go on go on Rory I just fancied that you know had a feeling yeah well he’s back to where he started the round nine on par wind off the right flag on the front

Right just easing into a N9 I think you like it Tim do you I do oh we do too now so does [Applause] he I can’t remember been missing any puts inside 4 feet so far this week I think the yardage suits him here at 202 seven iron

Is it going to stay there I think it might never thought that was going to come down for a second then Rory maoy for a birdie at 16 pulling just over a little Crest and downhill to the hole breaking left to right to finish with it makes it it’s moving to

10 10 under power for Rory M quite an eventful day for him huh yeah that’s a real quality shot they had the similar sort of exam on the eight control the flight try and keep some spin off it and I spin it down that tier that’s a poor

Shot he’s done well mroy with a quadruple on his card at the par 38 to be under par in windy bouncy conditions just a tap in after an indifferent second shot for maroy but it’s been a good day considering I think to be under par at this point is a job done I

Think can he get the High drawing driver into that breeze hang on now needs to carry the bunker asking it to sit he was worried about the spin I think yeah that’s I think that was actually quite a difficult shot as Tim mentioned that that face was a

Factor say how good this fell isn’t it Drew for seven in there and he’s still got a two- shot lead yeah that was a superb part from down there yeah the tempo of that stroke was just remarkable there was no you know what the change of Direction the

Transition they didn’t hurry it they didn’t leave the blade open it was just a beautiful piece Rory still at the top you had a nice solid start and unexpected quad maybe but how would you assess your round yeah I think um if I look at the

Other 17 holes that I played I played very very well again uh had some good iron shots and um played not too dissimilar dissimilarly to the way I played yesterday I I maybe held a couple more putts yesterday um but the conditions were getting a little trickier wind was up green greens were

Firm uh and a couple of miscues on the on the E pole uh which was you know I felt like I did well just to get my head back into it and and play some solid golf on the way in and you know everyone seemed to find it a little more

Difficult today than yesterday so you know it’s nice to go into the weekend still with with the lead it was obviously a phenomenal 62 yesterday I’d imagine a sense of calm as well knowing that you can make those birdies but how important was that bounce back Birdie on

10 today yeah 10 was big I had a chance to bounce back on nine that I that I missed but 10 was big uh the two shots into 13 were were were big too and to make you know two relatively easy birdies um and then I give you know I

Give myself chances most of the back nine which which was nice and uh you know was able to convert a couple of them before the you know that that tough finishing stretch there on 17 and 18 you saw Keith P warming up earlier this morning on the Range it’s no secret uh

Of the news of him stepping down from the DP World Tour what’s your initial thoughts on that yeah I mean first I’m happy for him um you know I think the job he’s going to is one that he’s probably wanted for a long long time being from Canada especially Toronto and

Being able to run you know two major sports in Toronto the the hockey team and the basketball team I think is a a wonderful opportunity for Keith so I’m I’m happy for him in that regard uh obviously in terms of where it leaves the DP World t uh you know guys going to

Step into that role and and guys been you know around you know around the T in in different capacities for for quite a while um but you know especially with everything going on in the game guys been pretty much in all those rooms um you know over the past couple of years

So thought it was a pretty natural um transition to go from from Keith to Guy and um you I’m pretty confident guy will do a good job as well to watch another DP world to video click here and to subscribe click here