Rory McIlroy - 4 Time Major Winner

I understand your point of view & I 100% agree Rory should have or should be expected to have won majors in the last 10 years. But to say that he isn't relevant majors wise compared to your list...

Rahm, 7 top 10's from the last 12 Majors - exceptional

Koepka, 5/12; Spieth, 4/12; Hovland 3/12; McIlroy 8/12 - so yes he has not won - but in terms of relevance in the majors sorry he has been contending continually over the last few years.

Rory got to -6 but a poor finish has him at -1

He will be LIVid 😅

So let's discuss the caddy again. Should he not know the rules, at least well enough to suggest Rory seek a ruling?

Ideally yes I suppose, but not necessarily, I think its 100% on the player IMO. I wouldn't attach any blame on the caddy.

A stupid mistake to make by the player. I guess if you don't know you're wrong and think its a simple enough drop procedure, many of the faster players won't call a referee. Just shows why so many of them do, even in the most straightforward of situations. I would have thought taking an unplayable is one of the bread and butter ones that the player should know.

That’s fairly typical of Rory, he opens his mouth and something comes out which he later backtracks on. He should focus on his golf and less on the politics of it imo.

I've always found a European out front and centre defending the PGA Tour a bit questionable anyway. The European Tour has suffered at the hands of the PGA Tour for years. Money talks and LIV are now doing what the PGA Tpur has been doing up until now.

I was half wondering that too, given his alleged conversation with Spieth where it seems he was against JS saying the other day that the PGAT would not or might not even need the Saudis.

I still think he's too invested in trying to win majors (esp The Masters) for another few years. I wonder could it realistically be worked out how long he'd be exempt for if he jumped. Would he get two more seasons before he'd be out of the top 50 ? He'd be good for the USPGA for life and The Open until he's 60, so it would only be the other two to worry about. Ahh I don't really see it tbh. I mean, whatever about a Poulter, Westwood etc, fantastically wealthy as they were anyway, Rory's true net worth must be astronomical at this stage. What can he do with 500m that he can't do with 200m ? That's before you'd consider the PR disaster it would be.

I do think he'd be better off just shutting the heck up (I know its not fully possible given his position) and focussing on his golf til he's 40, then maybe get involved in the running of things.

Dont think they have been consistent as Rory though forget about Majors.. That's only 4 tournaments and I dont even like him. He's one of the biggest draws and has been for years

When you are top two in the world for most of that time you are always going to be one of the favourites.

So if you consistently contend you have an issue?

His problem is that he makes bad errors and they cost him. It's got nothing to do with nerves. These mistakes often happen on a Thursday or Friday and ultimately cost him the win.

If he was the nervy type that would also happen on other big tournaments and he's won plenty of them over the last ten years.

This nonsense that a guy falls apart in majors but wins loads of other events, including the Fed Ex Cup three times,is absolute nonsense. I'd suspect anybody with this opinion never played sport.

2023 US Open, he shot 70 in the final round, same as the winner, Clark, and third, Scheffler.

Tell me how that was him bottling it?

2018 Open, he had the second best round of anybody in the top 9 starting the last day. He took the clubhouse lead. Unfortunately for him Molinari played great and had the best score of those in the top 9 and won.

Again, how do you decide he messed that up?

Fact is he's won four majors, he's seriously contended for a lot more. He has more Fed-Ex Cup wins than Tiger Woods.

My contention is that Rory makes mistakes by driving off the tee on holes where he doesn't need to and it has cost him at crucial moments but not just in Majors, it's happened in many tournaments. He just needs to be less aggressive at times. That's not a lack of bottle or nerves, just game management. He does the exact same thing in Majors as he does the rest of the year.

Oh and by the way if you look at betting thread in this forum you'll see I predicted Clark would win the US Open and Harman the Open last year. Those picks were based on their form but also in interviews they did. I'm not sure if I mentioned that when I picked Harman but I certainly did when I put up Clark.

I played sport at a decent level, my coaches loved me because I could talk to players.

I've been asked to use that talent many times but I've only used it in my local area. I have a job and it'd be a major life change and risk to do it full time. I just need to hear somebody talk for 30 seconds. I haven't seen or heard anything to suggest that Rory suffers from nerves. I think he's like all solid guys, gets nerves at the start of the day but works it out of his system quickly.

This isn't a guy who just got lucky and won four majors. He was a great amateur and performed under pressure many times in the big events long before he was a professional golfer.

Right then, I mentioned the Open in 2018 and the US Open last year.

What did he do wrong in those tournaments? What makes you believe he lost the tournament rather than the other player won it?