The Northern Irishman had a late change of mind on what clubs he wanted to use for last week's Arnold Palmer Invitational - but they were 200 miles away in his South Florida home

Few have the experience of playing the Stadium Course as McIlroy and certainly not three of the players directly ahead of him on the leaderboard.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Rory McIlroy was interested only in his good start to The Players Championship on Thursday than discussing a heckling incident in which he took the phone of a University of Texas player who had heckled him during a practice round.