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Rory McIlroy Sport

PUTTS ACROSS HOLE WHERE CARDBOARD ENDS

Item 7: members noted the sky section is complete but the golfer remains in the corner, awaiting a piece

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
Rory McIlroy crouches at a Venice vaporetto stop, squinting along the pavement to read the break before checking a tyre.
Location
Inside a 1,000-piece jigsaw on a trestle table behind an Auckland school sports hall
Currently
Lining up a putt across a missing piece
Last confirmed sighting
Third fairway of the puzzle, left of the windmill, Tuesday teatime
Observations
Is legally 40% fairway in the county of Rutland.

Rory McIlroy is lodged in a 1,000-piece jigsaw of a links course, in the exact gap where piece 612 should be. He is fine, and has been given a flat green about the size of a digestive biscuit. The puzzle sits on a trestle table behind a school sports hall in Auckland.

Monday, 9am: he was seen on the cardboard 14th, practising his club twirl. Tuesday, 3pm: a caretaker named Glenys tried to free him with a butter knife. Thursday, 11:40am: he holed a putt on the picture of a pond. Saturday, 6pm: a cat sat on the bunker.

He is currently reading the break on a green that stops at a jagged edge, with the bag of irons leaned against the box lid. Progress is slow, since the missing piece is probably under the fridge. He has asked for a rake, and one has been drawn on for him.

Guidance for the public

If you find piece 612, please post it to the puzzle, not the golfer.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 4 May 1989. Source: Wikidata

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