Emiliano Grillo and his playing partner believed McIlroy and Martin Laird had signaled for them to hit up to the driveable par-4. “Everybody was waving up the guys behind,” Grillo said. “Everybody thought they were gone or waiting for us. That’s why we hit it. There is nobody from the tour there calling us. We just thought they were done or just mark it so we could go ahead.” Rory, at war with his putter all week, saw the black humor in the situation. “Would’ve put me out of my misery,” said McIlroy, who finished T26 at 9-under — six shots back of Grillo and Na. Grillo tried to beg McIlroy’s pardon directly. “I wasn’t able to find him,” Grillo explained on Sunday. “I almost actually run a few fairways across to apologize to him. “I didn’t want to be the guy who almost hit Rory McIlroy this week,” he noted. “Kind of wanted to have this trophy and everybody to know me because I have the trophy and not because I almost hit him.” Not to worry. Since the victory punched Grillo’s ticket to the Masters in April, he can make amends at Augusta.
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