Rory McIlroy - 4 Time Major Winner

The favourite is just a bookies thing, just to try and get bets in

He won the week before

Who else will they talk about other than the biggest golfers in the game

It's turned beyond madness

I think you are overthinking the majors thing

It's part of a season, it's hard to win any golf tournament

If he wins 10% of the time which is unreal, way above any other current golfer, it would be amazing to have 4 by now and it's harder to win them because if the fields

It is hard to win majors and we are now in an era of normality where they get shared around with a few players capable of picking up multiple wins but nobody dominating. Tiger was an outlier that was head and shoulders above the rest of his generation and could show that at a major to the extent that the opposition were usually beaten before a ball was hit, so there may have been an unrealistic expectation that Rory could just carry on with his own era of dominance.

Without the Tiger era and before him Nicklaus, Rory stacks up fine with other great players from the last 50 years in terms of major and big wins. Watson had 8, Faldo and Mickelson had 6, Seve had 5, as has Kopeka now but they are the only ones with more majors on the board.

That said, Rory might be one of those players who won his majors early like Seve who by 27 had won 4 of his 5 majors, and the longer the gap since his last win, the harder it will be to get the next one. I do believe that he will win another major but it might be when expectations have dimmed.

He's said some amount over the years

He also said he doesn't care about the us open or the open only the masters

He also said the Ryder cup was a load of pants

He also said he really cares about being world number one

He loves the fed ex cup

He doesn't care about money

Or did tiger care about PGA tour wins, damn why did he win so many then or being world number 1

The reasons why Rory attracts so much attention are simple:

1. he hits it a mile, which we all love.
2. he hits greens from everywhere, so it looks like he has a birdie putt literally every time he stands up.
3. he can charge from 8 shots off the field. Which is exciting.
4. he can throw it away from 8 shots off the field. Which is exciting and infuriating.

the only players like him in the game are Scheffler (who is too robotic for anyone to enjoy watching… you know it’s not natural and it’s not going to last for long ) and Speith, who tends to play himself too far out of contention these days.

He’s box office pure and simple because following Rory is more fun than following anyone else.

This exactly. I don’t think I’ve ever backed a golfer on the nose, always each way.

So if Rory was priced at the 150/1 no hoper most people in here wisely say AFTER the event that he should be then his consistent top 10 finishes would be paying out at 30/1. But did you ever see a bookie on a bicycle? No because they’re not stupid.

Rory is consistently top of the betting list because:

His world ranking

His performances on the regular tour events

His performances in the majors

The fact he has won 4 majors previously (prevalency of this decreasing with the years)

Too many people look at golf like it’s a hurling match where there’s 1 winner and 1 loser. In golf there’s 1 winner and 149 “losers”. It’s hard to win.

Rory has a win percentage that makes him an all time great (10%), that’s an indisputable fact but it also means 90% of the time he tees it up he “loses”.

People just don’t appreciate the amount of good golf it takes to get yourself into the top 10 in majors so consistently. It’s incredible.

Think the stat going around is 20 top 10s since his last major win. So that’s 20/39 majors (think he missed 1 through injury) he has been in the top 10. That’s incredible golf.

There’s been times when he wasn’t really in the running to win but finished top 10 (though this would apply to plenty of other players top 10 finishes too), there’s been times when he really should have won and there’s been times in between those 2 extremes. But what that record of top 10s show is that he performs consistently very well in golf’s biggest events.

I’m a big Rory fan as is probably obvious from this reply. He’s far from above criticism just to be clear but it is also clear he is incredibly under appreciated for his achievements.

If you just took his last 9 years without a major as his whole career he would probably have done enough to be called the best ever without a major. Then you add back his 4 majors he has actually won and it elevates him to a whole other level.

As regards my opinion to where it’s going “wrong”, (wrong being very relative) it’s fairly clearly the putter I think. Without looking at stats I think he’s a good short putter (6ft and in) and he’s a good pace putter from distance but he doesn’t make enough from 6-20ft. He needs to find a way to make 1 or 2 more of these per round. The fact he’s such a good ball striker just ramps up the pressure on this part of his game as this range are generally the ones he has for birdies several times a round.

For Rory to win more majors, and I really believe he eventually will, he needs to:

1. Improve his putting even more

- specifically his putting consistency over 4 rounds of majors

- & his putting from 5-20 ft

And,

2. Improve his wedge play even further

- especially his pitches & wedges from 80 -140 yards out

Tbf to him, he had Improved these elements of his game to a new level this season, but unfortunately his putting has not been consistently good enough at any major over 4 rounds for nearly 9 years now. That's the biggest work on imho.

He gets that right, with the rest of his game maintained at current levels, and he'll win a (good) few more majors yet imho. I'm looking forward to seeing him do it too!!

MC at Augusta

T-7 in the PGA

2nd in the US Open

T-6 in the Open

Decent major season for Rory

Excuse my cynicism, as I've c read your previous posts on this thread for my sins, but do you want to change the title of this thread so you can ignore yet another aspect of Rory's achievements as Ireland's greatest ever golfer, and the best golfer on the planet looking over the past 15 years!?

Thought so!!

(I.e. That you wish to airbrush the recording of Rory's majors, and no doubt, that he's Ireland's greatest golfer, and the worlds best golfer adjudged over the past 15 years, etc, etc...).

P.s. Fwiw, if Rory had not won any of his 4 majors that he's already won to date, I would still be massively excited by his golf, and his prospects of winning majors in the coming years.

Why?

- Well for those who wish to see the evidence, Rory has consistently earned being number 1-3 in world golf for several years now, he's been in the top 10 for over a decade iirc, he features in the top 10 in practically every major he tees it up in now & normally finishes contending seriously in the top 5, he wins the fed ex Cup every other year, and on form he's visibly the best golfer & ball striker in the game.

How naysayers like you deliberately ignore this obvious evidence of his excellence & pedigree is a source of both bewilderment & bemusement tbh.

But, ibunnae, there's no accounting for some folk!!

In fairness, almost all top golfers spend 95%+ of their time not winning, so its a fairly safe call to say someone won't win. You will of course be correct way more often than you'll be wrong if you constantly say a player won't win.

I think that nearly every poster is a little right about Rory. He hits great drives, he hits some brilliant and some terrible pitches, some brilliant and some terrible putts. In essence he's a golfer and every golfer is inconsistent to a degree. Will he win another major? Who knows.