After winning the Tour Championship and the Fed Ex Cup last Sunday and enjoying the ensuing "celebration" Rory McIlroy caught a Trans Atlantic jet bound eventually for Crans- Montana, high in the Swiss Alps.
After opening rounds of 67 63 he eventually ran out of gas with a 3 bogey finish 69 on Saturday, and a sloppy 6 hole start today.
However despite playing with his B game he rallied to birdie 5 of 6 holes from the 12th -17th to get to -14 good enough to qualify with 4 others ( Sebastian Soderberg,
Lorenzo Gagli, Andres Romero and Kalle Samooja) in a 5 man playoff for the coveted Omega European Masters trophy.
On the first playoff hole Sweden's Sebastian Soderberg made his birdie putt while Rory lipped out and all the rest made par or worse. It was the Swedes first European Tour win.
It was Rory ' s 7th of 8 weeks of golf and he will take next week off before playing the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth then the Dunhill Links with his father at St Andrews, Carnoustie and Kings Barns.
Bryan Angus
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