For the first time since The Open Championship last July, Rory McIlroy will miss the weekend of a PGA TOUR event.

And it wasn’t just any missed cut. McIlroy shot 71-78 and lost more than 10 strokes to the field, the second-worst mark of his career.

It’s a jarring result for McIlroy, who has put together a stellar season (including no missed cuts). His worst finish before this was a T47 in his previous start at the PGA Championship. Before that, he had not finished outside the top 20.

It was disastrous early in McIlroy’s round. The world No. 2 made a quadruple-bogey on the par-4 fifth hole, blowing his second shot over and the green and out of bounds. After taking a one-stroke penalty, McIlroy hit another shot over the green, hit a pitch shot long, chipped onto the green and two-putted t

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