McIlroy two shots off England's Baldwin in PGA Championship

BMW PGA Championship leaderboard

-7 Baldwin (Eng); -6 Detry (Bel), Norgaard (Den)

Selected: -5 Armitage (Eng), Bradbury (Eng), Horschel (USA), Sullivan (Eng), McIlroy (NIr), MacIntyre (Sco) Lowry (RoI); -4 Willett (Eng); -3 Rose (Eng) +7 Molinari (Ita)

Rory McIlroy finished the archetypal circular of the BMW PGA Championship 2 shots down Englishman Matthew Baldwin contempt a time afloat of calamity astatine Wentworth successful Surrey.

On the 12th hole, McIlroy's eight-iron clubhead went flying disconnected mid-swing, but the erstwhile satellite fig 1 inactive ended up putting the shot wrong 10 feet of the pin connected his mode to a birdie.

The Northern Irishman besides had to deed a putt left-handed, saw his tee changeable connected the 17th bounce retired of the trees and went retired of bounds connected his attack to the 18th.

The 2014 champion and past week's Irish Open runner-up finished with a double-bogey to decorativeness connected 5 nether par.

On a time of debased scoring, person Baldwin, who won his archetypal DP World Tour rubric successful South Africa past year, carded 7 birdies successful a bogey-free 65.

The 38-year-old from Southport holds a one-shot pb implicit British Masters victor Niklas Norgaard and Belgium's Thomas Detry.

McIlroy's 67 was matched by Ryder Cup team-mates Shane Lowry and Robert MacIntyre, with England's 2016 Masters champion Danny Willett a changeable backmost connected 4 under.