McIlroy shared a six-way tie

Rory McIlroy Is a very young golfer, many people think that he will be the next world NO.1 take over the Tiger Woods. He was hit among the six at the top at the testing first day at Emirates Golf Club.
But McIlroy started the defence of his only career title with a promising four-under 68 to finish alongside Alexander Noren, Charl Schwartzel, Jeev Milkha Singh, Edoardo Molinari and Stephen Dodd.

With reduced visibility caused by sand whipping across the Majlis course and thick, unforgiving rough to contend with, Schwartzel's bogey-free effort was the pick of the day.

McIlroy opened with a stunning 64 last year - a round he rated as "the easiest 64 I'll ever shoot" - but today's effort was much more of a patient grind.

"It was very important to start my defence in a good score with his Callaway FT-i Driver , I would have taken anything under 70 looking at the scoring and conditions," said world number nine McIlroy.

"So to shoot 68 was very pleasing. When defending it's nice to get off to a nice start, but there's still a lot of golf to play."

McIlroy reached the turn in level par after seeing a 35-foot birdie putt at the third bounce up and in off the back of the cup to cancel out a bogey on the second.

He started the back nine with a two-putt birdie at the par-five 10th before picking up a third birdie of the day at the 12th.

McIlroy rolled in another birdie from 25 feet at the par-five 17th after scrambling from a greenside bunker and ensured his share of the overnight lead with another from eight feet at the last .

It was very tricky, windy, sandy and dusty and he did get off to a rough start with our discount golf clubs, but he made a lucky birdie on the third to get himself back to level par. McIlroy, now are 20-year-old, it’s a very young age, he is very confident about his future.

 
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