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RORY MCILROY

Rory McIlroy was faced with an interesting choice for his evening meal in Shanghai: a club sandwich or the Japanese baked eel set?

A pretty straightforward choice for most, it would seem, but the Northern Irishman is ruing not trying out the Far East cuisine after blaming his choice of the club sandwich for falling ill two days before teeing off at the WGC-HSBC Champions.

With more exceptional emoji use, which McIlroy has become a master of after revealing through the characters that he’d be returning from injury at the US PGA Championship in August, he tweeted:

McIlroy tweet

McIlroy didn’t play in the tournament last year at Sheshan International GC, which was won by Bubba Watson, but has failed to finish lower than sixth in his previous four starts at the course as he looks for his first victory since the Wells Fargo Championship back in May.

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