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Rory McIlroy is three strokes behind the leaders at the Tour Championship after he said he suffered muscle spasms going into the tournament as he tries to win his fourth FedEx Cup title.<\/p>\n
McIlroy is the only three-time winner of the FedEx Cup after overturning a six-shot deficit in the final round of the same tournament last year.<\/p>\n
He said he is \u201cover the moon\u201d to be placed where he is considering the spasms.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was at the bottom of a squat, a body-weight squat, and my whole lower back spasmed, seized up. I couldn\u2019t move. I honestly couldn\u2019t address the ball this time yesterday,\u201d McIlroy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, yeah, I mean, I hung in there and I just felt like if I could get through today, it\u2019s better than it was yesterday, hopefully tomorrow\u2019s better than it was today, and just sort of try to keep progressing.\u201d<\/p>\n
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McIlroy is sitting on seven under par in tied seventh after he finished the day with the same score as he started with, hitting four birdies and just as many bogeys.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I was always going to tee off. It was just a matter of how I felt on the course,\u201d McIlroy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it got progressively a little tighter as I went, but it will hopefully get loosened up here and just another 20, or 18 hours of recovery and go again.\u201d<\/p>\n
There is a three-way tie for the lead between Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley and Viktor Hovland on 10 under par.<\/p>\n
England\u2019s Matt Fitzpatrick is even with McIlroy in seventh spot while Tyrell Hatton is one stroke behind the pair.<\/p>\n