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Rory McIlroy breaks woman's phone with errant tee shot on first hole of British Open
By Ryan Gaydos
Published July 18, 2019
Rory McIlroy’s first round at the Open Championship got off to a rough start.
On the first hole, McIlroy’s opening tee shot hit a woman out of bounds and broke a cell phone in her pocket. Anna McKelvey, 34, from Northern Ireland, was standing near the fairway when she was hit in the stomach, according to Royal & Ancient.
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McIlroy ended up with a quadruple-bogey 8 on the first hole and it didn’t get much better from there.
He then bogeyed the third and had a double bogey and triple bogey on the back nine.
He finished the first round 8-over-par and several strokes off the lead.
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McIlroy will have some serious catching up to do if he wants to break his near five-year winless streak at a major tournament.
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