Rory McIlroy's third-round charge at The Open Championship was derailed in bizarre fashion on Saturday when he unwittingly performed a trick shot at the 11th hole. With one swish of his club, McIlroy not only hit his designated ball out of the rough to the right of the fairway but also dug out another ball that had been buried underneath the turf.

"That is the most weird, ridiculous thing I have ever seen," McIlroy said after the round.

Rory McIlroy, playing his second shot from the rough on the 11th at Royal Portrush in Round 3 of the British Open, somehow managed to unearth another ball in mid-swing.

The emotional rollercoaster Rory McIlroy took the vast, sun-beaten Royal Portrush crowd on during the third round of the Open Championship is best encapsulated by one particularly madcap 30-minute spe...