Rory McIlroy - 4 Time Major Winner

In fairness, this is probably the least important one to miss. It has always been seen as a bit of a jolly and not taken that seriously by the players. If I recall, Phil rarely played in it and only played recently because of the rule where they have to add a new event. Did Tiger play it much? Rory only played in it once. And they're allowed to miss one so I don't get the big deal being made.

That's going to put a lot of pressure on him to pay these extra bills, meaning he's going to have to win......hold up....I mean, turn up at a few more tournaments now!!!😁

The reporting of it is weird. Reed greets or acknowledges Harry D while Rory is apparently hunkered down looking at the ground for whatever reason. Reed says hello and Rory ignores (or didn't hear him). Yer man gets the hump and storms off like a child while flicking a tee at him. It's playground stuff tbf.

I'd imagine it's a fairly mild interaction in the bigger scheme of things and similar stuff doesn't get reported. The media will have Reed well-marked after his recent litigation threats against their colleagues. It just happened to be Mr PGA Tour vs one of the most dislikeable sportspersons you could encounter who also is on the Liv tour. I'm not defending Reed in any way, I still think he's an absolute clown.

Ok so Reed subpoenaed Rory and a lawyer turned up at his gaff with papers on Christmas Eve.

I can hardly imagine Rory saying "Howya Paddy, hope you and the family are keeping well", the next time they met.

If anything the whole thing seems to be fueling a bit of fire in Rory for the last number of months. He'll find it hard to hold off Rahm and Scheffler for #1 ranking this year. Although if he binks a major I don't think he'll be too worried.

Reed is the loser in all of this. He's a known cheat and now he's childish and upset with the most popular golfer on tour, Tiger excluded as he's not currently playing.

It's all good for Rory and his stance against that other tour is great too. Standing against murderers, anti Women's and LGBTQIA rights, the attrocities in Yemen and the greedy, uncaring golfers who support them is the right thing to do.

I'm sure he's getting praised for his stance a lot and I'm sure the sponsors are lining up at his door to get any opportunity to be involved with him.

As said above it seems to have fuelled the fire in his belly. It's be great if he won the Masters because I could honestly see him taking off on another major run if he did.

Maybe we need the likes of Johnson, Smith or Reed to get in front early so he can chase them down.

Some finish to the delayed R1 by Rory!

Just a casual birdie-eagle-birdie close.The media will be drooling at the prospect of a Reed and Rory grouping.

It does seem to have given him some extra drive or purpose, hopefully he doesn't tire out from it though. Tiger was intensely self-driven, maybe Rory needs more than just winning golf tournaments to really drive him - a "greater purpose" if you want to get philosophical about it!