Golf: McIlroy suffers early knock out

McIlroy failed to progress after losing his second match to former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel.

BELEK: Rory McIlroy was knocked out of contention on a rain-lashed day at the World Golf Final yesterday. McIlroy failed to progress to the semi-finals of the $7million-event after losing his second match to former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel. “Charl birdied three of the last four holes and you can’t really do much about that,” said McIlroy. The threat of thunderstorms forced all the scheduled afternoon matches to be shifted to today. The leading two players in each group will advance to the semi-final. The fifth- and sixth-place finishers will each receive $0.45 million, while seventh and eighth receive $0.3 million.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 11^th, 2012.