If you watched how Rory McIlroy birdied the 18th hole on Thursday at The Players, you will likely remember his closing three for quite some time. After missing the short grass again off the tee, McIlroy’s ball settled down in the pine straw to the right of the fairway.

Rory McIlroy drove the ball beautifully last month when he won at Pebble Beach, and again in his next tournament at Torrey Pines.Then he put a different version of his TaylorMade driver in the bag—along with his entire set of fairway woods—before last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational,