World number two Rory McIlroy admitted that he got frustrated during the final round of the US Open after bending one of his clubs in anger.

The Ulsterman drove his tee-shot into the water on the par-four 11th before hitting his approach shot into the creek guarding the green, before the two-time major winner lent on the shaft hard enough to bend it out of shape.

He continued to make a quadruple-bogey eight on the hole and was unable to use the offending iron again as he closed with a 76 to finish the season's second major on 14-over par.

"I just hit a bad tee shot into the creek there and what you don't want to do as a golfer is follow one mistake with another, and that's what I did," McIlroy said.

"And obviously I got a bit frustrated there.

"It's a hole that you want to try to take advantage of. It's a hole that you want to at least give yourself a birdie chance and you walk off with a quad and it's not very good.

"I think that's what this tournament does to you. At one point or another it's got the better of you, and it definitely did this weekend."

Golf 365