Rory McIlroy is three strokes behind the leaders at the Tour Championship after he said he suffered muscle spasms going into the tournament as he tries to win his fourth FedEx Cup title.
McIlroy is the only three-time winner of the FedEx Cup after overturning a six-shot deficit in the final round of the same tournament last year.
He said he is “over the moon” to be placed where he is considering the spasms. “I was at the bottom of a squat, a body-weight squat, and my whole lower back spasmed, seized up.
I couldn’t move. I honestly couldn’t address the ball this time yesterday,” McIlroy said. “So, yeah, I mean, I hung in there and I just felt like if I could get through today, it’s better than it was yesterday, hopefully tomorrow’s better than it was today, and just sort of try to keep progressing.” McIlroy is sitting on seven under par in tied seventh after he finished the day with the same score as he started with, hitting four birdies and just as many bogeys. “So I was always going to tee off.