Rory McIlroy - 4 Time Major Winner

Dav010

abff wrote: »

I agree that it was disappointing to finish with a double bogey after being 7 under for the previous 17 holes.

But I don’t see how you can call him just an average player. Nobody contends ALL the time.

And I certainly wouldn’t rule out his chances of winning the Masters. Yes, he would need to reduce the number of errors, but the betting odds have him, Rahm and Thomas vying for 2nd favourite behind DeChambeau, with Johnson next in the betting.

Would you put your money on him to win?

abff

It’s been a while since I placed a bet, but let me put it this way. If someone wanted to place a bet with me at the odds currently available for Rory (between 10-1 and 12-1), there’s no way I would accept the bet. Would you?

Mantis Toboggan

Wouldn't rule him out for the masters but I think there's too many top players in form at the moment.

Dav010

abff wrote: »

It’s been a while since I placed a bet, but let me put it this way. If someone wanted to place a bet with me at the odds currently available for Rory (between 10-1 and 12-1), there’s no way I would accept the bet. Would you?

Yip.

abff

Dav010 wrote: »

Yip.

If you’re that confident that he won’t win, there are betting exchanges where you can offer bets against a player.

Dav010

abff wrote: »

If you’re that confident that he won’t win, there are betting exchanges where you can offer bets against a player.

I could, but I don’t want to, gambling isn’t my thing. I am that confident he won’t win though.

rooney30

Dav010 wrote: »

I could, but I don’t want to, gambling isn’t my thing. I am that confident he won’t win though.

To be fair though , it’s hard to say with any degree of confidence that any player in this years Masters field will win, so it’s a moot point. A discussion on whether he will contend it probably more appropriate

Bubbaclaus

rooney30 wrote: »

To be fair though , it’s hard to say with any degree of confidence that any player in this years Masters field will win, so it’s a moot point. A discussion on whether he will contend it probably more appropriate

Exactly. The field always wins, apart from maybe 2000 era Tiger. It would be logical to bet against any individual player winning a particular major. Not exactly the hot take some people seem to think it is.

boardise

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Great bounce back after a 73 two rounds of 67.

Yes ,but the 73 is the real story.

The top 19 in their 57 rounds at the moment have produced just one round over 70 - a par 72...and it contains quite a few players who aren't top echelon.

In fact looking at the scores in the middle part of the leaderboard one can deduce that the real par for the tournament is closer to 69. In that context a 73 is a desperately poor score from the world no.4.

I'm a fan of McIlroy and am willing him back to his former level of performance. He's only 31 -I still think he can acquire one or two more majors even with the competition hotting up all the time

Russman

I haven’t been following the shot tracker too much this week. Has anyone seen what aspect of his game has been the cause of 13 dropped shots in the three rounds ? I’d assume the putting is at least “ok” given he’s had 22 birdies, so is there another issue ?

boardise

Statistics

Rd 1 Driving 46% GIR 50% Putting gain 2.6

Rd 2 Driving 62 % GIR 66% Putting lose 0.27

Rd 3 Driving 77% GIR 78% Putting lose 2.00

Rd 4 Driving 77% GIR 78% Putting gain 0.64

Rd 3 missed 4 putts of 4 1/2 ft. or less

29 birdies in total.

prawnsambo

boardise wrote: »

Statistics

Rd 1 Driving 46% GIR 50% Putting gain 2.6

Rd 2 Driving 62 % GIR 66% Putting lose 0.27

Rd 3 Driving 77% GIR 78% Putting lose 2.00

Rd 3 missed 4 putts of 4 1/2 ft. or less

22 birdies so far -2nd highest of tournament !

Herding chickens. Can only ever get two of them under control and the other's off down the road.

BigChap1759

Dav010 wrote: »

I could, but I don’t want to, gambling isn’t my thing. I am that confident he won’t win though.

Fantastic insight!

Benny Cake

Dav010 wrote: »

I could, but I don’t want to, gambling isn’t my thing. I am that confident he won’t win though.

Care to tell us who will win?

BigChap1759

Benny Cake wrote: »

Care to tell us who will win?

Or some other bankers for not winning might be interesting.....

Dav010

BigChap1759 wrote: »

Or some other bankers for not winning might be interesting.....

Do ya really think it would be interesting?

If you name all 96 players at the start, you would be right 95 times and wrong once, how is that interesting?

Rikand

Dav010 wrote: »

I could, but I don’t want to, gambling isn’t my thing. I am that confident he won’t win though.

You challenge someone to make a bet, when you refuse to gamble yourself. :pac:

BigChap1759

Dav010 wrote: »

Do ya really think it would be interesting?

If you name all 96 players at the start, you would be right 95 times and wrong once, how is that interesting?

xgronkjabv6pcl

3 days of relatively solid play along with some good numbers off the tee in recent weeks.

Perhaps he's closer than his results suggest.

On his odds, I'm probably not a buyer @13/1 but it'll be a while before we see Rory much longer than that at The Masters.

Mantis Toboggan

Charleigh Inexpensive Electricity wrote: »

3 days of relatively solid play along with some good numbers off the tee in recent weeks.

Not bad for an average player.

xgronkjabv6pcl

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Not bad for an average player.

Well whether he's average or not, he broke his own PGA tour record with 29 birdies this week.

Obviously the course was set up very easy but the scoring is there but a few too many mistakes.

I'd like to have seen him play maybe once more before Augusta but I think Zozo is his last.
I think The Masters is arriving just a little too soon for him. Hopefully I'm wrong and he puts himself in position.

He's only had that driver shaft in the bag since CJ Cup so maybe he has some stuff to iron out there even though he seems good off the tee.

I'm more hopeful than I am confident but it's intriguing as ever.

ankles

He's seven shots off the lead. All of which he gave away on the back 9 Thursday

xgronkjabv6pcl

His post round words seem to signal that he's happy enough with where his game is at in many respects.

I think he's echoing what commentators and fans all think watching him now. It's a matter of ridding his game of some silly mistakes and he fancies himself to be in the mix.

McIlroy wrote: »

"Just limiting the mistakes more than anything else," said McIlroy when asked what he will be working on ahead of next month's Masters. "I don't think it's anything technical, but yeah, mostly just I've sort of compounded errors this week a little bit, and last week as well.

"I had a really bad run there at the end of the tournament to go from wherever I was in the top 10 to outside the top 20. So yeah, it's basically that, when I get out of position. I didn't feel I hit that bad a shot on 16, but it hit a tree and came back into the hazard.

had a really bad run there at the end of the tournament to go from wherever I was in the top 10 to outside the top 20. So yeah, it's basically that, when I get out of position. I didn't feel I hit that bad a shot on 16, but it hit a tree and came back into the hazard.

"I'm trying to be super cute to just land it on the green, get it close so I could save par instead of just saying to myself give yourself a putt from 10 or 12 feet. I'm trying to be really almost just too perfect and I'm maybe just being a touch aggressive when I get myself out of position.

"So just taking my medicine a little bit more when I do. That was sort of the story of the week. It would have been nice to hole that birdie putt at the last, I would have made 30 birdies for the week. So I made 29, which is more than enough to win golf tournaments, I just need to cut out the mistakes."

think it's easier to eradicate bogeys than it is to find birdies," he added. "I've played tournaments where I feel like all I can do is make pars, which is not a bad thing, but at the end of the day, that's not what's going to give you chances to win tournaments.

"I'd much rather the bad spells are a little more like this, a little more up and down, at least you're having the good holes and giving yourself chances for birdies. The bad stuff then, that's easier, I think, to get rid of.

That's a more conservative play off the tee, that's hitting it to the fat part of the green, it's all that. It's more of a strategy thing rather than finding birdies, you're putting so much pressure on yourself to do that.

"After two days here I had made 15 birdies and was not in the top 40, so I was pretty proud of that! And then I just continued it on. I made seven on Saturday and seven today, so adds up to 29.

Every time I made a birdie, Harry said, 'That's not a good thing. You're 20th in the tournament and you made so many birdies'. It was just a running joke for the week.

"You know, if I can keep making that many birdies every tournament, sooner or later I'm going to get rid of the bad stuff and I'm going to be right there."

Dav010

Mur28 wrote: »

His post round words seem to signal that he's happy enough with where his game is at in many respects.

I think he's echoing what commentators and fans all think watching him now. It's a matter of ridding his game of some silly mistakes and he fancies himself to be in the mix.

Search “Mcilroy silly dumb mistakes”, you will find the same stock interview and excuse given by him for years, if he cuts out the silly/dumb mistakes he’ll be right there.

kippy

Dav010 wrote: »

Search “Mcilroy silly dumb mistakes”, you will find the same stock interview and excuse given by him for years, if he cuts out the silly/dumb mistakes he’ll be right there.

Sure feck it. If we all cut out the silly dumb mistakes life would be much better!

xgronkjabv6pcl

Dav010 wrote: »

Search “Mcilroy silly dumb mistakes”, you will find the same stock interview and excuse given by him for years, if he cuts out the silly/dumb mistakes he’ll be right there.

It's standard enough for athlete's and those in the media to have pretty stock responses.

I simply felt that sharing the last post round interview before the Masters may be somewhat interesting to people.

I doubt everyone has a google history which contains "Mcilroy silly dumb mistakes" but I appreciate you making us aware that it's his effective go to response.

tobsey

Dav010 wrote: »

Search “Mcilroy silly dumb mistakes”, you will find the same stock interview and excuse given by him for years, if he cuts out the silly/dumb mistakes he’ll be right there.

He’ll be more than right there, he’ll win. He had the most birdies in the week. 4 more than cantlay I think. The difference was cantlay only dropped 2 shots all week.

Dav010

tobsey wrote: »

He’ll be more than right there, he’ll win. He had the most birdies in the week. 4 more than cantlay I think. The difference was cantlay only dropped 2 shots all week.

It’s the same old ding dong, loads of birdies, loads of bogeys/missed putts, an abysmal round or two then 2/3 good rounds to get a top 10 finish. As Mur28 quoted, the “I just need to cut out the silly mistakes” seems apt, but he’s been saying it for a long time.

xgronkjabv6pcl

Dav010 wrote: »

It’s the same old ding dong, loads of birdies, loads of bogeys/missed putts, an abysmal round or two then 2/3 good rounds to get a top 10 finish. As Mur28 quoted, the “I just need to cut out the silly mistakes” seems apt, but he’s been saying it for a long time.

Plenty of excellent golfers use terminology like "silly/dumb mistakes" to bemoan their performances.

He's not alone in speaking like that on occasion.

fullstop

Charleigh Inexpensive Electricity wrote: »

Plenty of excellent golfers use terminology like "silly/dumb mistakes" to bemoan their performances.

He's not alone in speaking like that on occasion.

Don’t know why you’re bothering tbh.