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Rory McIlroy has admitted a desire to add more length to his game, fuelled in part by Bryson DeChambeau’s power play at the 2020 US Open, has triggered technical problems as visible at the Players Championship. A second round of 75 at Sawgrass, as added to Thursday’s 79, meant McIlroy comfortably missed the Sawgrass cut. Afterwards, he expanded on the basis for his struggles.
“Probably like October last year, doing a little bit of speed training, started getting sucked into that stuff, swing got flat, long and too rotational,” said McIlroy. “Obviously I added some speed and am hitting the ball longer but what that did to my swing as a whole probably wasn’t a good thing. So I’m sort of fighting to get back out of that. That’s what I’m frustrated with.”
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