I played Rory's childhood course, Holywood last week. It's not long but it is so narrow and penal, lots of side slopes too so good training for him at Augusta.
Is something wrong with McIlroy? Had a bust up with the press, turned down the opportunity to play in the Memorial and didn't bother to let Jack Nicklaus know in preference to go to the Canadian Open where he has just shot and 8 over 78, including a quadruple bogey and missed the cut.
Is something wrong with McIlroy? Had a bust up with the press, turned down the opportunity to play in the Memorial and didn't bother to let Jack Nicklaus know in preference to go to the Canadian Open where he has just shot and 8 over 78, including a quadruple bogey and missed the cut.
As one of the commentators said......it must be a big come down after winning the Masters & therefore doing the Grand Slam. Like letting air out of a balloon he's had all that pressure on him for years & now he's done it all the adrenaline has gone.
Is something wrong with McIlroy? Had a bust up with the press, turned down the opportunity to play in the Memorial and didn't bother to let Jack Nicklaus know in preference to go to the Canadian Open where he has just shot and 8 over 78, including a quadruple bogey and missed the cut.
At one point he was 150th out of 156......and that included 3 players who had withdrawn !!
Struggling with new driver as the one he won the masters with was ruled illegal
That might be part of it but if one of the world's best players is struggling to adapt to a driver with a minimal change then what hope is there for anyone else. Scheffler had to change his and promptly won the Memorial. Mind you, McIlroy's been here before with that disastrous NIke episode.
Then, though, there was the Memorial episode when he didn't even have the courtesy to call Nicklaus and chose to play the far lesser tournament. Why would you turn down one of the most prestigious and respected tournaments for a much lesser one? That does suggest that, perhaps, there's something else going on and perhaps it's something as simple as the re-location of his family from Florida to the UK. We'll see if that was a one off next week anyway when he appears in the US Open.
Watched it all last night and it looked like there were all sorts of things going wrong in his head. Every element of his game looked sub-pro, amazed in the end he managed a 78.
The drop off since the major has been bizarre and I feel a lot more than just losing a little competitive edge. Those top ones are all competitive animals, they hate losing knowing they have the ability to win.
Fascinated in how he goes next week. That’s if he starts
Is something wrong with McIlroy? Had a bust up with the press, turned down the opportunity to play in the Memorial and didn't bother to let Jack Nicklaus know in preference to go to the Canadian Open where he has just shot and 8 over 78, including a quadruple bogey and missed the cut.
His body language is very poor .Is it the come down after Augusta,the Driver, maybe his domestic life ?By his own admission he hasn’t put the work in off the course.just recently.
Canadian Open (the one the Rory missed the cut and finish 159th) currently has 11 players tied for the lead at -11 and another 8 players just 1 shot back. In fact there are 47 players within 2 of the lead.
I reckon he has still has stuff going on off the course with the Mrs. She couldn’t even break a smile when he won the masters. I would put it down to that because it would take a lot for his golf to be affected in my opinion.
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I played Rory's childhood course, Holywood last week. It's not long but it is so narrow and penal, lots of side slopes too so good training for him at Augusta.
Then, though, there was the Memorial episode when he didn't even have the courtesy to call Nicklaus and chose to play the far lesser tournament. Why would you turn down one of the most prestigious and respected tournaments for a much lesser one? That does suggest that, perhaps, there's something else going on and perhaps it's something as simple as the re-location of his family from Florida to the UK. We'll see if that was a one off next week anyway when he appears in the US Open.
The drop off since the major has been bizarre and I feel a lot more than just losing a little competitive edge. Those top ones are all competitive animals, they hate losing knowing they have the ability to win.
crazy.