McIlroy bids to rebuild confidence

Bloodied but unbowed from his British Open experience, Rory McIlroy will bid to restore some confidence in his swing ahead of the final Major of the year.

The promise of an opening, three-under par 67 at Royal Lytham & St Annes last Thursday faded over the 54 holes that followed with over-par rounds of 75-73-73 sending the 23-year-old Major winner plummeting down the leaderboard.

His final round yesterday was undone in the same manner his Masters bid in 2011 unravelled from the 10th tee at Augusta National. McIlroy started his round with a bogey-double-bogey run between the second and fourth holes and once again, that was a setback from which he could not recover.