CARNOUSTIE, Scotland For a player who once complained about the vagaries of links golf, Rory McIlroy enters this Open with a dazzling record in the sports oldest championship.Though he missed the 2015 event because of an ankle injury, McIlroy has now posted three consecutive top-5 finishes in the years third major.Its surprising a little bit that my best form in major championships has been this tournament, he said Wednesday, but at the same time Ive grown up these courses, and Im comfortable on them. I think going to courses on The Open rota that Ive played quite a lot. I think that helps. You have a comfort level with the golf course, and youve built up enough experience to know where to hit and where not to hit it.
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McIlroy still regrets what happened in 2015, when he did something slightly silly and injured his ankle while playing soccer a few weeks before the event. That came a year after he triumphed at Royal Liverpool.Since 2010, I couldnt wait to play The Open at St. Andrews, he said. I thought that was one of my best chances to win a major.He tied for 42nd at Carnoustie in 2007, earning low-amateur honors.
Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, who won the 2011 US Open on a rain-softened Congressional course, agreed he'd like to see a more traditional US Open set up. "In my head, growing up watching the US Open, that was what my perception of the US Open was," McIlroy said. "It was tight fairways. It was thick rough. It was a premium on accuracy and
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