Which Rory McIlroy will rock up at US Open?

When Rory McIlroy blew the lead and his chance to win his first major title at the 2011 Masters, he was so heartbroken that he ended up sobbing into the phone to his mother, convinced he’d let his one chance to win a major slip through his hands.

Which Rory McIlroy will rock up at US Open?

Yet just a few months later, McIlroy wept tears of joy when he blitzed the field by eight strokes at Congressional Country Club to make the US Open his first of four major championship triumphs.

Fast-forward to this spring when McIlroy limped home with a final-round 75 at Augusta National on April 7, and squandered his latest chance to win the Masters, the one major he desperately covets to complete the career Grand Slam.

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