“I have a real appreciation for how well bunkered it is off the tee. It’s like, okay, well, I can hit a 2-iron off the tee, but that brings this bunker into play,” McIlroy said earlier this week. “But then if I hit driver, it’ll bring this bunker — so you have to take on the shot. You have to say, okay, I’m going to commit to hitting this shot and I just know I’m going to have to avoid — like some courses that we go to in the Open rota you can just take the bunkers out of play. You can lay up short of them or go beyond them. Here there’s always one bunker or another bunker in play, so I think off the tee it provides a very, very good test.”