Taking time to chat with your playing partner over 18 holes of golf isn't an outrageous request, but when you're trying to dispatch personal demons in pursuit of history, small talk takes a backseat ...

For the first 15 holes on Thursday, things were going according to plan for Rory McIlroy. He was four-under par, a couple of shots off the lead and in a tie for second place during the first round. He ...