Shane Lowry confirmed he will partner McIlroy once again for the team event in Lousiana, which they won last year in a play-off.

McIlroy’s ball tumbled into the creek. He bent his spine in half and threw his hands onto his knees. There had been plenty of triumphant patron responses at that point in the day. Here, in Amen Corner’s final chapter, the gasps returned. They did not stop.