Instead, it looks like it will be on a more case-by-case basis.
From the sounds of it, a pause in hiring isn’t a company-wide policy. Those familiar with the matter state that Apple will remain cautious about hiring staff for roles in certain departments. As concerns of an impending recession continue, the tech giant hopes to be cautious of spending as a hit to the economy may rear its ugly head. Photograph: Warren Little/Getty Imagesįor Lowry, nine shots back off Smith, the chase is a tougher proposition but would have been even more difficult if he hadn’t responded to that double-bogey on 16 – where his approach from rough finished against the rear face of a greenside bunker – by birdieing the 17th, the toughest hole on the course, and closing out with a birdie on 18.Apple is planning to slow down on its internal hiring and spending. Shane Lowry tees off on the 10th hole during the second round. I felt pretty much in control of everything, and I think the results and the consistency I have back that up.” The plan for the next two days? “Just play good golf and keep hitting good shots and hit a good shot and hit another good shot after that, just try to hit golf shots until you run out of holes,” said McIlroy, adding of how much he is in control of his game: “It’s been like this all year. It quietened, however, coming in when failing to birdie the par-five 14th and then suffering a bogey on the 15th – where he three-putted – only to get spine-tingling roars again with a brilliant birdie on the Road Hole, just the fifth of the day on the 17th. A run of three birdies from the 10th to the 12th ignited his challenge and the roars which reverberated around the links with each putt dropping let the world and its mother know he was on a charge. Then, as McIlroy can do, he flicked the switch. We’re all pulling for him,” said McIlroy of his boyhood idol.Īs for his own round, McIlroy got off to a slow start with four successive pars before birdieing the fifth and seventh and then bogeying the eighth in turning in 35. And this week was obviously a tough week for him. We want to see him still out there competing. “I’ve gotten pretty close to Tiger over these last few years … he was all our hero growing up, even though I’m maybe a touch older than some of the other guys. McIlroy’s round had started just as that of Woods was ending, and he had the time and respect to tip his cap towards the 15-time Major champion as they walked in different directions on the wide expanse that serves as the fairway to the first and the 18th holes.
Of the septet of Irish players in the field, just three survived but each in positions to make impacts: McIlroy, of course, is ideally positioned but David Carey, the Dubliner who plies his trade on the Alps Tour, showed he was well ready for golf’s major stage with a hugely impressive 67 for five-under 139 to sit inside the top-20, while Shane Lowry showed mettle in recovering from a double-bogey six on the 16th to finish birdie-birdie for a 68 for four-under 140.Īmong the casualties were defending champion Collin Morikawa, Brooks Koepka, Zach Johnson, winner in 2015, and Louis Oosthuizen, winner back in 2010, while Pádraig Harrington and Séamus Power were also among those who failed to advance to a weekend when only one man will take a place in history.Ĭameron Smith of Australia looks on from the 16th during the second round at St Andrews. On a day which started with gentle if persistent rain, before clearing for near ideal links conditions, but with the wind shifting direction and the R&A attempting to protect the links with rarely seen flag placements, there were many who contrived to go low, with Smith’s 64 the low round and with the cut-mark eventually settling on level-par 144. If the poignancy of Woods’s finish, including a slow walk over the Swilcan Bridge brought tears to many an eye, including his own, those with their eyes on the historic title will want to fashion that old killer’s instinct of his which once upon a time had invoked fear into one and all.ĭoes Smith have that hard edge? We’ll see, for among those numbered among his closest pursuers emerged a mix of young guns and old hands perhaps most notably of all Rory McIlroy, who added a 68 to his opening 66 for 134 to be close enough to have genuine ambitions of claiming a fifth career Major title and first since his 2014 US PGA.
The air in the grey town dripped with sentimentality, but of cordite too for, on a day when Tiger Woods strode his favoured fairways for perhaps the last time of an honoured career, those with grand designs on this 150th Open on the Old Course manoeuvred into position for a battle royale, with Australian Cameron Smith’s midway total of 13-under-par 131 a record low through 36-holes.
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