Rory McIlroy - 5 Time Major Winner and Grandslam legend

Fair enough. At least you're not one of the footballification golf fans of which we have many.

why?

It was a superb afternoon's golf. I thought Rory's predicament on the 18th was fascinating. By being the longer player, he had to lay up as he couldn't use the driver and was then short of Billy. That's compounded by not having a club for the distance left. His 3rd attempt at the hole was superb. Still, you felt Billy could play those two shots into 18 all day long and he was going to eagle it at some stage. Billy is 4 under for the 3 holes, Rory 'only' 2 under. And that's that……

Was it bad bag management by Rory not having a pair of clubs to easily (given his distance) reach the 18th? Was the driving iron referred to a 2 iron?

You just knew that when the commentators were saying that you wanted to putt first, the guy putting 2nd was going to win! Thought McGinley was very snarky about Rory too. Is there history there?

Dunno if it's been mentioned here already but an interesting rule I wasn't aware of is a player can swap in a club for the play off. So Rory could actually have put in another club for the play-off that would have given him another option of reaching 18 more comfortably

And if he had a caddy that was allowed give his opinion he probably would have put that club in his bag.

The caddy thing is holding him back in my opinion. Having a conversation before the shot, every shot, whether it's simple or takes some thinking about is a great thing whether it changes your mind or not. The last thing the caddy always does is tell you he likes it and you are more comfortable hitting it. If you don't have that then you may take bigger risks and you know it standing over the ball and that's not helping you.

An example would be where they are looking at going for it on a par five. Rory says he thinks it's a 2 iron, the caddy thinks it's too much club because there's trouble over the back. So he simply says 'so long as we don't go over the back we are fine'. Now Rory has to think about it. If he's confident it won't go over he tells the caddy that and the caddy says okay, sounds good and gives him the line and walks away.

Rory is more comfortable now and is far more likely to hit a smoother two iron and it's more likely to work out.

For me the biggest weakness I see in Rory's game is that he's hitting the ball way too hard with his medium to short irons. You give up a lot of control and accuracy too often when you hit the ball that hard. You can take one more playing within yourself, sky it, which Rory is better at than most golfers, and it'll be a lot more likely to be within 20 feet. That will eliminate those mistakes that are costing him a lot of tournament wins.

Obviously he needs somebody to help with those missed short putts which seems to have happened too often since the US Open but that's pretty simple to fix.

Fabulous last 3 holes from Rory. Great win under pressure. His wedge play was excellent this week

Huge respect and Congratulations to Rory. When he's on song, he's simply the best in the world.

Really enjoyed that. His putting was excellent all weekend.

Nobody but Tiger has been as consistent in this tough game.

I do appreciate the lack of few majors adds questions but ya got appreciate greatness too. And thats what he is.

Majors numbers shouldn't be a stick to beat him with which many people seem to love to do and ignore everything else he has done well

it was indeed once! Thanks

I think Rory has been in Top 10 of world rankings for something like 15 years , no other player has anything like it in same period

I really think if he can get one major win a few will quickly follow

Career earnings have now gone over €150 million plus whatever he's made off course. Unbelievable money

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There's simply no better player to watch for pure ball striking ability than Rory's when he's on song. I've been lucky enough to see him in action plenty of times over the last few years, and when you witness those high draws with a 4 iron from the turf, or a 350 yard drive cracked down the middle.

It’s just ball striking heaven to see it live!