Eugenio Chacarra called it. A day after opting to accept a two-stroke penalty for improving his lie, rather than protest his innocence, Rory McIlroy burned up Yas Links It is untrue to say the ruling, invoked by the referee post-round after video review and accepted by McIlroy, did not cause a kerfuffle. McIlroy did his best to limit the fuss, pointing out that the TV footage did not look good, and that he had to take his medicine.