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Published 15:36 14 Jun 2018 BST
Updated 18:04 14 Jun 2018 BST
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"So would love to do that again this week. It feels like it's been a while since I've been in the mix at this championship. With how my game feels, hopefully I can do the right things over the first few days and put myself in a position to win another one."Bluntly put, Shinnecock Hills is an aul' bollocks of a course and anything under par in the opening round, when the greens are like polished silver, would be good going. Charley Hoffman made the early running, to go -2, and McIlroy was not far off. That was, for the first hole. Starting off on the 10th hole, the Holywood native got a par before dropping his first shot on the par three 11th hole. It got worse from there, then worse again. There was another bogey on the 462-yard par five 12th hole and then two double bogeys on the 13th and 14th. After five holes of his opening round, McIlroy was +6. The start was not too hot for McIlroy's playing partners Jordan Spieth and Phil Mickelson... https://twitter.com/scott4ester/status/1007269001972649984 There was a chink of light, though, on the next hole as McIlroy picked up his first birdie of the day to get back to +5. It got worse from there as McIlroy sank to +10 after 11. He made two birdies in a row to briefly rally but another bogey followed and he slipped to +9 after 16. Ian Poulter, meanwhile, was tipping along nicely at -1 (after 17) while Scott Piercey was alongside him atop the early leaderboard.
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