Rory McIlroy overcomes final hole chaos to make halfway cut at BMW PGA Championship

Rory McIlroy navigated a chaotic final hole to make the cut at the BMW PGA Championship.

Following an 80-minute fog delay, the second day at Wentworth ended with four groups waiting on the 18th tee and Thomas Bjorn exchanging words with a drunk spectator.

With the light fading fast and the 18th green predominantly illuminated by the light from a giant scoreboard, McIlroy two-putted from 45 feet to finish on the projected cut mark of one under par.

The Northern Irishman – who shot a one-under-par 71 on Friday – had to wait until the second round was fully completed on Saturday morning for confirmation that he’d made the cut.

“It was a s***show,” a frustrated McIlroy said after coming through a farcical evening.

“It’s a bit of a mad dash. The fog obviously delayed things but I’ve never remembered having that many players on 17 and 18. It’s not as if they teed us off in tighter slots or anything.

“It’s hard for me trying to play the last well and make the cut, it’s a bit of a scramble to get finished. I don’t know what you could do about that apart from less players in the field.”

McIlroy’s Ryder Cup team-mates Justin Rose and Nicolai Hojgaard also made the cut by finishing on one under par, meaning all 12 members of the European Ryder Cup team reached the weekend.

Earlier in the day, Robert MacIntyre revealed that he was heckled by a spectator who had bet against him.

The Scotsman was playing alongside Rose and Matt Fitzpatrick and made the cut with a 69.

Bjorn, who got involved in an argument with a drunken fan, needed a birdie on the last to make the halfway cut but only managed par.

Adrian Meronk said he was “shocked, sad and angry” not to receive a Ryder Cup pick from Europe captain Luke Donald last week, but he let his golf do the talking as he made the cut.

“I have accepted it,” the 30-year-old Pole said at Wentworth.

“The first couple of days after were tough, but I have moved on and am focused on my game. I want to finish the season strongly and that is my only goal now.

“I know it’s easy to say, but it’s like having a bad round and letting it go. This one was a little bit tougher to accept because it wasn’t based on me and someone else made that decision.

“I definitely think it is wrong. I feel I’ve deserved it. I feel I’ve shown in the last two years that I’ve played really good on the DP World Tour. If you look at the results and the numbers, I thought it was enough, but there’s nothing I can do now.

“But I have been pretty good at accepting things in my career. I’m trying to turn all that disappointment and anger into motivation, especially this week.”

Swedish duo Ludvig Aberg and Sebastian Soderberg currently share top spot on the leaderboard with 10 under par, while there is a four-way tie for second on nine under par.