First-round chief Rory McIlroy dropped right into a tie for fifth place with a second-round 74 on Friday on the season-opening Dubai Invitational.
The Northern Irishman offset two birdies with 5 bogeys, together with the seventeenth and 18th holes on the Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Membership. At 2-under par, McIlroy is three photographs behind co-leaders Nacho Elvira of Spain (68 on Friday) and Eire’s Shane Lowry (68).
Spain’s David Puig (72) and England’s Marcus Armitage (70) share third place at 3-under. McIlroy, the World No. 2, is stage with France’s Antoine Rozner (72), Spain’s Angel Ayora (72) and South Africa’s Thriston Lawrence (71).
Defending champion Tommy Fleetwood of England plummeted right into a tie for thirty ninth after carding a 7-over 78 on Friday. He double-bogeyed the 218-yard, par-3 eighth gap.
–Subject Degree Media
