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 vanished nan first information of nan BMW PGA Championship 2 shots down Englishman Matthew Baldwin contempt a time afloat of calamity astatine Wentworth successful Surrey.

On nan 12th hole, McIlroy's eight-iron clubhead went flying disconnected mid-swing, but nan erstwhile world number 1 still ended up putting nan shot wrong 10 feet of nan pin connected his measurement to a birdie.

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

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

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

The 38-year-old from Southport holds a one-shot lead complete 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, pinch England's 2016 Masters champion Danny Willett a changeable backmost connected 4 under.