Rory McIlroy snaps driver, then nearly pulls off the unthinkable

it hasn't been a good week to be one of Rory maloy's metal woods on Friday at the BMW Championship mroy let his frustrations out on his three wood sheepishly tossing it into the water after a Mis Fairway on the par 517th before ultimately fetching it to continue play Sunday there was no continuing play with his driver after what he did with it the world number three came to the ninth hole at Castle Pines at four under for the tournament and a distant nine shots off the lead when he again just like on 17 today before blocked his t- shot out to the right he knew immediately as he released one hand off the club and swung it back behind him in frustration the ball hit up on a Hillside and took several bounces off the Rocks before settling precariously above a creek that lines the long par 4 but that would just be the first of his problems on number nine as mooy bent down to get his tea he put too much of his weight on his driver and the shaft snapped the NBC broadcasters initially assumed maoy simply made a mistake and broke the club on accident but when mooy never made an attempt to replace the club it became clear mooy broke the club out of anger according to rule 4 one2 if a conforming Club is damaged during a round or while play is stopped under rule 5.7 a except in cases of abuse the player May repair it or replace it with another club the accepting cases of abuse supplies here as maoy must have admitted to Breaking the club in Anger thus thwarting his ability to replace it but before all of that maroy still had to play in number nine his ball was sitting just barely above the stream on the right Bank meaning as a right-hander aged have to go in the creek to hit it he removed his shoes rolled up his pan legs and stepped into the stream maoy went into the water without a club at first as caddy hary Diamond stood at the ready to give his boss his weapon of choice maoy had 137 yards up the hill and downwind meaning stopping the ball on the shallow green would be difficult eventually Diamond handed maroy a club as the four time major winner tried to find a footing within the running water after roughly 65 seconds he settled with his lead foot out of the water on a rock and his Trail foot submerged finally Moy took a swing mostly driven from the upper body and sent the ball flying it came down right behind the pin stunning the broadcasters it finished 27 ft from the hole how about thatch it really th it to be up in the the air a long time NBC's cameras kept following maoy as he slipped his socks back on but then walked up toward the green before putting his shoes back on a few minutes later the broadcast returned to mroy as he stood on dry land feet back in his kns ready to hit the birdie putt it tracked right in the center but stopped 4 in short maroy collapsed in a sigh of frustration the way a offer thinks he's going to be mad he didn't make birdie said Kurt beram

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