Rory McIlroy must work harder to join elite with Tiger Woods

If Rory McIlroy was still at school, then his report card after yesterday’s disastrous round of 77 would simply have said: Must try harder.

You see, with all of his pre-tournament preparation done, an in-form McIlroy had no excuses.

Sure, he may well have moaned back in the press centre about getting a little too steep on his transition down in the swing, which caused the ball to fly right of his target line all day long or that his putting simply wasn’t good enough.