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With his injured wrist bandaged and his score soaring, Rory McIlroy wandered between dining tables on a patio outside a hospitality tent deep behind the ninth green late Sunday morning. He was searching for — of all things — his golf ball.
He had just bladed his approach shot from a fairway bunker on the par 4, and his ball airmailed the green, a TV tower, a white picket fence and a few tall pines. The only thing that kept his Titleist from sailing all the way to Duluth was the roof of the Wanamaker Club — a swanky hospitality spot where fans enjoyed air conditioning, fresh panini and prime viewing seats. The ball finally crash-landed near a dining table on the patio, and all McIlroy needed was a fork and some French toast and he could've had brunch. The fans cheered him as he waded through the throngs, and for a brief moment he even considered...