Rory McIlroy says he’ll embrace leading the Genesis Scottish Open field into the eye of a Renaissance storm.The Northern Irishman is now due to get his third round underway over six hours earlier than scheduled as savage weather gets set to hammer the East Lothian venue.
Tournament chiefs have brought forward Saturday’s play at the £8 million Rolex Series event to start between 7am and 9am with thunderstorms forecast.
High winds are also predicted for tomorrow’s play and McIlroy had to fight through torrential rain over the final Friday holes to shoot 66 and stay ahead of the hunting pack.The World No.3 is prepared for battle against any bad weather as he hunts down the title and said: “I’m just going to try and embrace whatever the conditions give us and however the golf course plays.
I don’t mind [the bad weather]. I kept saying that, yes we are all looking forward to next week, but I want to go and win this tournament over the weekend.
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