Rory McIlroy throws fan’s remote-controlled golf ball into water

Rory McIlroy was in no temper for hijinks on Saturday.

Throughout the third spherical of the BMW Championship, a fan dropped a remote-controlled golf ball on the fifteenth inexperienced the place McIlroy and Scott Stallings had been placing and tried to get it into the outlet.

He was shortly thwarted by the Northern Irishman, who knocked the ball away along with his putter twice earlier than shedding his persistence and lobbing it into a close-by pond.

A fan tried to point out off his distant managed golf ball to Rory McIlroy.

Rory wasn't amused and chucked it within the water 😂pic.twitter.com/pkr5ZUq5Oz

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“He stored yelling at Rory, ‘That is my dream, that is my dream,’ ” Stallings mentioned, per Golfweek. “I don’t know precisely what he was dreaming about, however his ball is gone.”

The fan was escorted away by a police officer.

“I assumed it was nice,” Stallings mentioned. “I used to be about to go and do the identical factor.”

Rory McIlroy stares at a fan who was being taken away after placing a remote-controlled golf ball on the inexperienced.

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A fan is taken away by a legislation enforcement official after working onto the fifteenth inexperienced Saturday throughout the BMW Championship.

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McIlroy goes into Sunday’s motion tied for tenth at seven-under within the match. Stallings is 4 photographs forward of him, tied for second behind Patrick Cantlay.

“That wasn’t precisely one thing I anticipated to see on a Saturday afternoon,” Stallings mentioned.