Every golfer knows the feeling of finding out your golf ball in a fried-egg lie in the bunker. It's absolutely deflating, although as we saw on Thursday at Bay Hill, things could be much worse. You could hit your golf ball into a bunker and not find it.

Rory McIlroy is fighting atop the leaderboard amid the second round of the 2025 Players Championship on Friday, yet most of the public attention on him is more concerned with what happened during a practice round at TPC Sawgrass earlier this week.

Rory McIlroy is near the top of the PLAYERS Championship, but he had to earn his 5-under 67 the hard way as his struggles off the tee continue.