McIlroy’s swing changes work wonders

FOR a man who began the week with a performance that ranked as “the worst I have ever hit it as aprofessional,” Rory McIlroy left the Egyptian Open the knowledge that he is on the way back to his after finishing the tournament with his lowest score of the week, a four under par 68.

That final round effort, for a six under aggregate of 212, saw the Irishman finish the week in a tie for 12th position, seven shots behind the champion Mark Tullo of Chile who posted a brilliant six under 66 to take the US$40,000 first prize ahead of Scotland’s George Murray and Dutchman Floris de Vries.

Four under was the worst possible score McIlroy could have compiled around the JW Marriott Mirage City Golf Club yesterday as his swing-changing labours bore fruit and led to the kind of prodigious display that has taken the 21 year-old to the World number nine spot.