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Rory McIlroy’s Miracle Escape Keeps Australian Open Hopes Alive

After a whiff in the tea tree left him outside the cut line, McIlroy birdied 15, 17 and 18 at Royal Melbourne, highlighted by a soaring fade from wasteland to the par-5 17th green. His 68 took him to two under, inside the projected cut, while leader Neergaard-Petersen plans to “be in the thick of things on Sunday.”