Why golfer Rory McIlroy was forced to hit a shot with ball under banana peel
Rory McIlroy’s campaign to win his second Australian Open title suffered its banana peel moment… from an actual banana peel! The world No 2 from Ireland had to hit a shot in the third round with the ball taking cover under a banana peel, which was possibly thrown on the golf course by a fan. But what was even more strange about the incident was that McIlroy had to play the shot without removing the banana peel. Why? In McIlroy’s own words: “It’s a loose impediment and it was resting on the ball so if I moved the banana peel, the ball would have moved so I just didn’t even didn’t even try. I mean, I shouldn’t have been there in the first place, but, yeah, I wasn’t the best to start.” Translation: if the ball had moved while he tried to pick up the banana peel, McIlroy would incur a one-stroke penalty. “I feel like this is a week of firsts and in a lot of ways,” McIlroy said. How had McIlroy ended in …
