Rory McIlroy hits longest drive but ‘one of greatest shots of my career’ seals Scotti

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Rory McIlroy launched the longest drive of his career – a whopping 427 yards – in the final round of the Genesis Scottish Open on Sunday. Yet it says so much about his extraordinary birdie-birdie climax that the monstrous fairway-splitter did not even rank in the top-two shots of his round as he won his first tournament in six months to send him into this week’s Open with self-belief overflowing.