Rory McIlroy opens with 74
— -- PARAMUS, N.J. -- It has been rare of late to see Rory McIlroy's name anywhere but at the top of the leaderboard, but the reigning Open Championship and PGA Championship winner was far from his impressive standard, shooting 74 at the Barclays on Thursday.
After a rather tumultuous 10-day period following his PGA win at Valhalla on Aug. 10, McIlroy's performance at the first of four FedEx Cup playoff events on the PGA Tour perhaps should not have been a surprise.
"It's more to do with just not putting the adequate time into my game over the past week for obvious reasons," McIlroy said after shooting 3-over par at Ridgewood Country Club. "I think that's really been it. So I'm going to grab a bite to eat here and go to the range this afternoon and work on a few things and really just catch up on some practice that I probably missed out on over the past week."
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