McIlroy and Woods step into golf’s twilight zone

Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods ended their ‘Duel at Jinsha Lake’ to the music of The Magnificent Seven but then Manic Monday may have been a better choice in Zhengzhou.

After his defeat to Woods at the World Golf Final in Turkey last month, McIlroy turned the tables by winning the medal match play event with a five-under-par 67 to Woods’s 68 on a cold day in north-central China.

McIlroy had been soundly beaten by Woods the last time they met but then their showdown in this city of 10 million was purely exhibition — inside and outside the ropes.