'Doesn’t look very good' - McIlroy on two-shot penalty at Abu Dhabi Championship

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They showed me a video from 12,
hit my first chip shot from down the bottom of the hill, didn't get up,
came back down and rolled into a divot, and then as I went to sort
of just get a feel for the lie, the close up of the camera,
you can see like a little piece of grass around the divot sort
of lies down as I put my club down behind the ball, and it doesn't,
I guess the grass doesn't return back to its original position.
Thank you very much.
And I don't like, obviously there's no intent, I play by the rules,
I feel like this, you know, this is never really, you know,
I try to do everything that I can to never end up in these positions.
But just by looking at the video, like, it doesn't look,
it doesn't look very good. Obviously that wasn't my intent.
You know, the technical, I guess the technical term for the rule
is if you press down on the piece, I don't feel like I pressed on.
But at the same time, I don't want the perception of, of, like,
people thinking like I got away with something either. So I'm happy
to take the two shot penalty and move on and move into tomorrow.
I felt like I played pretty well.
It was really like that, you know, that bad swing
on 12 where I missed the green right and, you know, made...
Double, which is now a quad.
Thank you very much, Todd.
But apart from that, I felt like I hit the ball pretty nicely.
Obviously.
Yeah, I hit my irons nice, drove the ball well.
So, yeah, it was a round where I felt like I could have been,
you know, obviously a lot better.
But, you know, there was enough encouraging signs in there
to go out and hopefully shoot a good one tomorrow.
