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BBC said he was on -2 after 2. They must have made an error because it now says he's -4 after 3. I must put it on.
He won the Scottish Open last week where 8 of the world's top 10 golfers were playing. He showed great bottle to win, particularly towards the end.
But when it comes to the majors he must have some mental block because often times he starts off poorly and finishes strong and vice versa.
He's world number 3, still wins tournaments and he can still finish in the top 10 or higher today, with rounds that are average by his standards. It just goes to show if he can get his putting clicking, he will win more majors yet.
I just checked scores there- is he not 1 under after 3?
Par, par, birdie start it shows on the app?
I heard for the first 2 days he was in the top 5 for approach play but was outside the top 100 for putting. And it was the same story yesterday, great approach play but 2 putted almost everything. When he finished his round yesterday he went to the practice green to try and work on his putting, but I heard commentators say it was no better.
He's dropped a shot on the 2nd hole today, so what ever slim remote chance he had of winning is gone.
His game tee to green is as good as anybody's.
He gets into great positions but the putter just goes cold.
His frustration is obvious.
He's the most talented I've ever seen swing a club but he just doesn't have that killer winner mentality the greats have. When he was younger he told his parents he wanted to quit the game, something you can't imagine a Tiger or Jack ever contemplating. Rory will finish up with a great career on paper but given his talent an underwhelming one. There's no way he should have fewer majors than Faldo and only one more than Harrington, both would admit that Rory is another league to them talent wise.
He's the most natural player by a mile ability wise. If you made a deal with the devil for a golf swing it's Rory's swing you'd trade for.
In that sense he's behind his potential but there is a lot of pressure on him and he doesn't have the personality to let that just pearl off. Thats not a criticism, he's essentially a good guy and tries to be a good guy, too, and maybe thats not ideal. Maybe he just cares too much in a thinking kind of way and not enough at the same time in a simple minded bullish sort of way.
I read a book some years ago written by a sports psychologist about Thomas Mueller the footballer. He was only average amongst his peers when he was 17, 18. You see that today even, he's no Messi and never has been. Loads of players streets ahead of him in Munich when he was a kid. Who all now work at colleges or in average business jobs and he's won a World Cup and a couple of Champions Leagues and ten Leagues or so. It's all in the mind.
Rory puts his foot in every now and then but his heart is in the right place and I wish him well and he may well find that mental slot yet and go on a second half of career run.
As for today not a hope in hell. Harman is not the kind of player who blows up. The others will have to catch him and he's too far ahead for anyone outside 4, 5 shots I think.
What's the expected finishing time today?
He has trouble at majors mentally, getting over the line but he has been close on numerous occasions. He's far from just another player as you said. 2 wins this year, FedEx cup last year and number 2 in the world proves that.
Ah, he won the Scottish open off a meaningless spectacular shot.
And yet it resulted in nothing this week as he's not even close to contending.
Playing spectacular shots every now and again is meaningless.
I'm sorry now, look it he might never win another major and lads might bash him for it on here, but to say his nothing special simply shows your lack of knowledge of golf. Did you not see his second shot on the 18th holes in the Scottish open or his bunker shot on the 18th Friday. Very few players in world can play them shots.
I think he has changed his thinking on driving it miles. He has introduced a 2w into his bag. He even said it himself. He seen a video of last major win and he was surprised himself of how many irons he hit off the tee.
The putting coach may have other players in his stable who needs to coach too?
What's the simple fix?
He's a great player and been very close a lot. The first thing he needs to change is trying to hit the ball miles off the tee every time. He needs a game plan. I seen the putting coach staying behind him watching his stroke. Did he not watch him on the course? It's very simple to fix.
McIlroy is just another player these days, nothing special about him anymore.
No majors in 9 years. Considering he won 4 in the space of 4 years in the early 2010s and was only in his mid 20's you'd have expected him to push on from that point but he hasn't. He genuinely looked like he was going to be really dominant (as dominant as you can be in golf) . The very minimum I would have expected since then was another 3 or 4 majors.
In spite of all his success I think he might look back and think he's massively underachieved. He isn't even the best player of his generation any more never mind pushing to be the greatest of all time (and it looked like he was genuinely on his way to that) .
The guy was just a troll. Reasonable debate from fans and haters of McIlroy always welcome. It makes for a more interesting read.
I'm a big Rory fan (as frustrating as that is) but surely others are entitled to their view?
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He should have been -6 after 5 instead of "just" -3. Felt like he was trying to force it down the back 9 a little to try and make up for the missed opportunities early on.
Really hard to know where he goes from here with his putting tbh. Like, there’s times when it’s not too bad, even good, on occasion (usually on really quick greens), but so often it’s just two putt after two putt from 6-12 feet. Wonder has he brought his Scotty over with him and will we see it tomorrow. Probably not.
normally I’d be in the “golf is hard, sometimes they just don’t drop” camp, and I largely believe that (at all levels of the game tbh), but it just happens too often with Rory for it to be just one of those things. Hopefully he figures it out, must be so frustrating.
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Mod note: report posts that you think are trolling. We will do our best to review and action. Sometimes, this could be a day later. We are only human!
Question for mods. What is the process for banning those who only come onto the thread in order to wind people up? Do we all need to report them, or is it better to just ignore them in the hope that they will get bored and stop posting?
Waste of time. I asked him some simple questions yesterday and he completely ignored me. Also reported him for trolling. So you can thank me if he's banned.
Thanks. I kind of figured that. I was just trying to understand what motivates trolls. I find it bewildering.
Putting is the weakest part of Rory's game, it always has been. I don't know if he does a lot of work on it, if he doesn't, he should. It would also help if he had a caddy on the bag who is good at reading putts.
Flatters to deceive.
It's no exaggeration that Rory left at the very least 5 birdies behind today. Tee to green he was great, but his putting was so poor. They weren't long putts either, not did they have a lot of break. And his 1 bogey was slightly unfortunate, he landed on the green with his second shot, had it landed a foot more to the left it wouldn't have rolled off and left him so far away and below the hole with an awkward chip.
A caddy won't make him a better with the flat stick or scoring irons. Wedges were brutal earlier this season. Putter was cold today.
His missus could carry the bag like Westwood does for little difference. Someone had a great post in this thread about a grizzly bearded Scotsman scowling at Rory with fag hanging out of his mouth. Whats he really going to do? What's the caddy going to do for Justin Thomas? Poor lad will need therapy after R1.
Rahm absolutely ripping it up again is possible but Harman could well leave them all in his wake.
He will shoot a 65 tomorrow
