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Rory McIlroy very literally hit his father with a 7-iron during his opening round at the Masters on Thursday.
After pulling his tee shot into the trees on the Par 4 7th, McIlroy was faced with a tough approach shot into the green. He needed to hit a right-to-left shaped shot into the green, but he wasn’t able to do so.
The result? He caught a patron in the leg standing just right of the green. Moments after the shot,This obviously could have turned out much, much worse. Outside of taking a golf ball to the foot, taking one off the leg is about as good of a place as any. Having seen a few people take a golf ball to the head in my day, it can get pretty scary.
As for how things ended up for Rory, he walked away with a bogey on the hole. He closed out his final nine holes with four bogey and a birdie making the turn at three-over on the day.
