Paige Spiranac gives Rory McIlroy verdict on his hasty US Open escape after throwing victory away with the tournament at his mercy

Paige Spiranac shared her thoughts connected Rory McIlroy's exit from Pinehurst aft letting nan US Open title gaffe from his grasp successful nan closing moments.

After collapsing successful nan last holes and losing to Bryson DeChambeau, nan Northern Irishman quickly vacated nan premises, refusing immoderate interviews and media interactions.

Reposting a video of McIlroy's conveyance driving distant from nan course, nan play influencer sided pinch nan PGA Tour prima arsenic fans reacted to his consequence to nan loss.

'Hot return but I don't attraction erstwhile athletes do this,' Spiranac wrote. 'He gave america everything he had connected nan people and gave america specified an entertaining day.

'I consciousness for Rory correct now and can't moreover ideate really he's feeling,' she continued. 'Cut him a break.'

The agonizing loss saw McIlroy fto different awesome title flight arsenic his title drought inches toward nan ten-year mark. McIlroy's past awesome triumph came successful August 2014 astatine nan PGA Championship.

With nan tourney astatine his mercy and starring by 2 shots pinch 5 holes to play, McIlroy crumpled astatine nan decorativeness pinch bogeys connected 3 of his last 4 holes, including a heart-breaker astatine nan 18th.

McIlroy uncharacteristically missed from 2 feet and six inches for par connected nan 16th and little than 4 feet connected nan 18th to suffer different heartbreaking extremity successful a winless decade.

The Northern Irishman did not bent astir to speak to nan media and was pictured by play newsman Jason Sobel packing his clubs into a car aft DeChambeau secured nan victory.

Additionally, footage emerged of a devastated McIlroy watching DeChambeau wrap up glory successful nan clubhouse. It was an ending that whitethorn beryllium considered much achy than nan 2011 Masters implosion.

Starting nan time 3 shots down DeChambeau, McIlroy made nan perfect commencement pinch a birdie from 20 feet connected nan first and recovered himself conscionable a changeable down erstwhile DeChambeau bogeyed nan fourth.

McIlroy was 2 shots up by nan clip he was stepping to nan 14th tee. The 'Rory' chants grew louder and DeChambeau could perceive them.

McIlroy took bogey from down nan 15th green, but he stayed 1 up erstwhile DeChambeau, playing successful nan group down him, had his first three-putt of nan week connected nan 15th erstwhile he missed from 4 feet.

And that's wherever nan U.S. Open took an agonizing move for McIlroy. He missed a 30-inch par putt connected nan 16th spread to autumn backmost into a tie. On nan 18th, McIlroy's tee changeable landed down a notorious wiregrass bush. He blasted retired short of nan greenish and sounded beautifully to 4 feet. And he missed again. 

McIlroy was watching from nan scoring room arsenic DeChambeau escaped from an atrocious dishonesty near of nan fairway - a character successful his backmost swing, a guidelines successful beforehand of nan play shot - and punched it retired into nan bunker.

He expertly blasted a changeable from nan soft soil that rolled retired connected nan crispy greenish to group up nan winning putt.

'For him to miss that putt (on 18), I would ne'er wish that connected anybody,' DeChambeau said aft a last information of 71 near him six nether par, a changeable up of McIlroy and 2 clear of Patrick Cantlay and Tony Finau.

'I deliberation that occurrence successful him is only going to proceed to grow. He's going to triumph much awesome championships.

'I person thing but respect for really he plays nan crippled of play because, to beryllium honest, erstwhile he was climbing up nan leaderboard, he was 2 ahead, I was like, Uh-oh, uh-oh. But luckily things went my way.'