Rory McIlroy - 4 Time Major Winner

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I had the hunch he was going to miss that putt on 18.

It was a little fecker of a putt. Understandable that he didn't hole it.

Didn't think he had a chance this week. Course didn't suit him and yet he played himself into contention.

71 (-1) 2015 Masters (-9, Never in contention 4th) Spieth -18

72 [+2] 2015 US OEPN Chambers Bay (E, Back door T9) Spieth -5

71 (-1) 2015 PGA Whistling Straights (-5, 17th) Day -20

70 (-2) 2016 Masters (+1, T10) Willet -5

77 [+7] 2016 US OEPN Oakmont (was a shadow of his former ultra confident self) DJ -4, MC

69 (-2) 2016 Brit Open (-4, Back door T5) Stenson -20

74 [+4] 2016 PGA Baltusrol, Walker -16, MC

72 [e] 2017 Masters (-3, Back door T7) Garcia -9

78 [+6] 2017 US OEPN Erin Hills, Koepka -16, MC

71 [+1] 2017 Brit Open (-5, Back door T4) Spieth -12

‘You’re Rory McIlroy, what the **** are you doing?’ I said, ‘Yeah’. At that point I mumbled and said, ‘Whatever.’

(Fires JP!!!)

72 [+1] 2017 PGA Quail Hollow (+1, T22 mentality and game was a shadow of itself) Thomas -8

69 (-3) 2018 Masters (-9, Crumbled in the final round T5) Reed -15

80 [+10] 2018 US OEPN Shinnecock Hills, Koepka +1, MC

69 (-2) 2018 Brit Open (-6, Never truly in contention until an Eagle on 14th. 2nd) Molinari -8

70 [e] 2018 PGA Bellerive (-2, T50) Koepka -16

73 [+1] 2019 Masters (-5, T21) Tiger -13

72 [+2] 2019 PGA Bethpage (+1, Back door T8) Koepka -8

68 (-3) 2019 US OEPN Pebble Beach (-5, T9) Woodland -13

79 [+8] 2019 Brit Open, Lowry -15, MC

70 [e] 2020 PGA Harding Park (-2, T33) Morikawa -13

67 (-3) 2020 US OEPN Winged Foot (+6, T8) DeChambeau -6

75 [+3] 2020 Masters (-11, T5) DJ -20

76 (+4) 2021 Masters, Matsuyama -10, MC

72 [e] 2021 PGA Kiawah Isl (+5, T49) Mickelson -6

69 (-2) 2021 US OEPN Torrey Pines (-1, T7) Rahm -6

70 [e] - 2021 Brit Open (E, T46) Morikawa -15

73[+1] 2022 Masters (-7, Never in contention. 2nd) Scheffler -10

65 (-5) 2022 Southern Hills (-2, Never in contention. 8th) Thomas -5

67 (-3) 2022 US OEPN Brookline (-2, T5) Fitzpatrick -6

66 (-6) 2022 Brit Open (-18, 3rd) Smith -20

72 [e] 2023 Masters, Rahm -12, MC

71 [+1] 2023 PGA Oak Hill (-2, T7) Koepka -9

65 (-5) 2023 US OEPN LACC (-9, 2nd) Clark -10

71 [e] 2023 Brit Open (-6, Back door T6) Harman -13

71 (-1) 2024 Masters (+4, T22) Scheffler -11

66 (-5) 2024 PGA Valhalla (-12, T12) Schauffele -21

65 (-5) 2024 US OEPN Pinehurst (-1, 2nd) DeChambeau -6

I've been actively rooting against him for more than 10 years. The amount of uneducated comments and cheap shots he's getting today, even from his own 'fans', makes me laugh and shake my head.

I'm now hoping he goes on to win another major! I think he'll do it to. Next year. PGA at Quail Hollow or Brit Open at Portrush.

When was the last time you seen someone who was in the clubhouse come back out to the green to congratulate the winner. Maybe if he was in the same group as him it would be disrespectful.

Any excuse to kick the lad when he is down.

Practically every major ...

Rory was brilliant for 14 holes, his only bogey on the 5th was bad luck as it should have fallen off the green into the bunker.

For me, the 7 iron on 15th was the wrong club, it landed pin high when long was dead, his putt for par was slow so anything short was going to be ok. He played 16 perfectly until that putt, I cannot believe he missed that, he has not missed a putt within 3ft this year so that was the big moment for me, the putt on the last was a really tricky one, any pace and he would have had 6ft+ coming back.

Bryson his an outrageous bunker shot as anything more than 15ft past the flag would be 3 putt territory.

Felt Rory was very unlucky with Clark last year, not sure what hole it was in the final round but it was a par 3 he missed left down a massive hill, hit a bump & run and it went in, he might still be trying a year on trying to reproduce that and then Cam Smith just putted like a freak of nature at the Open, last night he had control and should have won, gutted for him.

Ive waited a while to let the result sink in and the emotion abate a little. I can only imagine how R Mac is feeling.

The only thing ill say is its golf. Not life and death. He needs to move on from It and quickly. No point dwelling.

But lads it was a pure bottle job. Pressure and his own expectations missed those putts.

Dechambeau didnt win it. Rory won it for him.

The MOD EDIT Ease off the personal insults please didn't give away the PGA championship. he was beaten by a player who played better all through.

Rory lost the US open, it wasn't a case where he couldn't catch somebody.

Those are completely different circumstances.

You have no regrets if you give your best and it's not good enough. When you make awful errors you are sick to the pit of your stomach.

Right he was imo, poor man was devastated. He does more than enough media. Last thing he needed was some journalist asking him for his analysis of what went wrong.

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Perfect opportunity for McIlroy to take a major step back from the media anyway. I don’t think talking to them does him any good.

Ah would ya stop

Tayto man you are time travelling.

I made that comment after a tournament 6 weeks ago.

My observation made last night was that the wrong club selected on the par 3 was where the rot set in. Course management demanded a club that could not go long.

Again course management got him on the 18th. Apart from two poor putts obviously, decision making cost him badly.

Brilliant article from Golf Digest writer who followed Rory up close. Puts a lot in perspective.

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/us-open-2024-rory-mcilroy

The two poor putts were the difference between winning and losing. It's that simple.

In!!

There was never a “British” Open

And Rory has won two Open Championshios I believe.

Edit: one… 2014

Article in the Irish Times and headline below.

A disgrace.

There is a sickness in sport and articles like these are one of the root causes of the issue.

It's everything you don't want to read or hear in sports and sports writing

Its also factually wrong.

I've copied the full article (and included the link) I would encourage you not to give him the click. Its also a 'subscribers only'

'choked'

"mental breakdown"

"dweebier"

Toxic language and ALL about winning.
NO its not.
This mentality is perpetuated by sports writers/hacks.
It manifests itself in how our children engage in sports.
Nothing about sportsmanship, sincerity & honesty in the game. Or the great competitive nature that was on display.

Golf is a great game. Unquestionably all those in contention were giving 100% of themselves.

These are the values that should be championed.

Mon Jun 17 2024 - 10:02

This wasn’t about Bryson DeChambeau’s bunker shot or McIlroy’s perennially put-upon caddie - it was about the scrambled brain that led to two short putts being missed when everything was on the line

This one is going to linger. It has to. In the days and weeks and surely even years to come, Rory McIlroy is going to feel the sting of what happened in those 23 minutes on Sunday night at Pinehurst. Extending his 10-year purgatory without a major is one thing. Finding a completely new way to come up short is another. Especially when there’s nobody to blame but himself.

Missing two putts inside four feet in any round is bad for any pro golfer. Doing it in the final three holes to lose a US Open by a shot means everything else melts away. Every other factor in the result becomes irrelevant.

Bryson DeChambeau’s bunker shot for all time? Couldn’t have mattered less had McIlroy sunk the two putts. Those curious club/shot selections down the stretch? A wry footnote at worst, something to laugh about through the puffed cheeks of victory. Backing off shots in the closing holes? Understandable nerves, actually quite sweet in a way – as long as the putts go down.

But they didn’t.

This wasn’t Harry Diamond’s fault. McIlroy’s perennially picked-upon caddie got his man to the 70th green of a US Open with a one-shot lead and a 30-inch putt for par. Nothing a bagman can do in that scenario but presume his boss will see it out. It wasn’t down to a Cam Smith-style run of birdies from an opponent on a hot streak either – DeChambeau had his worst score of the week and played his last five holes in one over par.

No, this one is entirely on McIlroy. He choked, plain and simple. He did everything right until he got within sight of the finish line and then he did everything wrong. His putter, which had been such a laser-guided weapon all week and particularly on Sunday, turned into a jelly snake right at the moment of highest tension and sharpest consequence. This can only have been due to a mental meltdown.

As the leading golf statto Justin Ray pointed out, McIlroy had faced 496 putts inside three feet all season standing on the 16th green and had made all 496 of them. He had holed them in every circumstance, from early Thursday mornings to late Sunday evenings and all imaginable scenarios in between. Of the countless ways for his challenge to fall apart, every analyst of his game would have got a long way down the list before landing on his short putting.

The days of people watching him through their fingers as he stood over important putts were long gone, we thought. At Pinehurst on Sunday, he was having one of the great putting days of his career. Even with the two tiddlers missed down the stretch, the cold numbers say he still ranked eighth in the field for strokes gained putting in the final round.

His technique was sound, his speed was on the money – so many of his putts died in the hole, a clear indication that he and Diamond had worked out the puzzle of Pinehurst’s baked, humpbacked greens across the week. He was like a Vegas magician who had built his illusion step-by-step and layer-by-layer. He had the audience sitting forward in their seats agog, ready for the last big flourish of the reveal.

Except now, when he reached into his top hat, there was no rabbit to pull out. The easiest part of the trick had become the most difficult. All the lights were on him, all the trumpets were tuned and ready. All the scrapes and calluses of a decade’s toil in the majors were about to get their payoff. And the weight of it crushed him.

The psychodrama will play out over the next while, as it must. It will be fascinating to see how he handles it. He’s down to play the Travellers Championship this week. Will he turn up? If he does, will he do a press conference? Will he talk about choking, that great unspeakable bogeyman taboo of golf?

He should. If nothing else, it would take the sting out of the phrase for everyone. Choking happens to all golfers at one stage or another, yet none of them ever cop to it. For a crowd of lads who are typically among the dweebier end of the sporting population, there’s a drearily macho refusal to ever admit to mental fragility. McIlroy could change all that, if he liked.

It would be understandable if he didn’t feel that was a priority this week, obviously. But it might do him some good at the same time. He has to find some way of moving on from this.

How he goes about it will keep the rest of us agog for a while yet.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/2024/06/17/rory-mcilroy-choked-at-the-us-open-and-he-has-nobody-to-blame-but-himself/

Malachy Clerkin you are a hack.

Gutter journalism.

& once again I'm no fan of McIlroy but the person and sport do not deserve this type of coverage.

that article reads pretty true so I don't know why you think it's gutter journalism

I don't think he choked completely but he had successfully sank 46 putts in a row from that distance and then missed 2 in three holes. Something changed.