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Michael ReavesPEBBLE BEACH — Rory McIlroy’s game-used winning putter at last week’s RBC Canadian Open in exchange for a Toronto Raptors jersey? There hasn’t been a trade that bad since the Knicks sent three draft picks to the Raptors for Andrea Bargnani in 2013.
Luckily for McIlroy, one of the favorites at this week’s U.S. Open, the swap with Golf Canada CEO Laurence Applebaum was only a temporary one following the Northern Irishman’s rousing seven-stroke victory at Hamilton Golf & Country Club.
“He gave me a Raptors jersey (not even a Kawhi Leonard one but a Kyle Lowry one, no less), and I gave him my putter and thought he was going to give it to [my caddie] up at the scoring area,” McIlroy said Wednesday. “And I saw Harry. He goes, ‘Where's your putter?’ And I said, ‘I better go find it.’
“So, no, I definitely didn't give it away. I know I've done some stupid things in the past, but that would have been right up there.”
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Protecting a two-shot lead going into Sunday…boxed in on high-speed turns: Jason Day and Scott Pruett know what it means to be under pressure. Hear what they have to say about the mental challenges they face.

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