Good Luck Rory McIlroy

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Just seen he has made a fantastic start to his second round at the US Open. It would be great to see him banish the memories of the Masters earlier in the year.
 
Shawady said:
Just seen he has made a fantastic start to his second round at the US Open. It would be great to see him banish the memories of the Masters earlier in the year.
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Yeah, it's a great start again for him. I hope he does it. The talent is there no doubt. If he can get one major under his belt he could take off from there. Great days for Irish golf!
 
Outstanding - Irish winners in 5 of the last 17 majors, how good is that! Rory McIlroy has one bright future ahead of him.
 
Unbelievable.
To win the US open in that style after the disappointment of the Matsers shows how good he is. He will definitely win more majors.
 
14 years in the making but last night and actually the whole weekend was incredible drama. The courage and grit Rory showed last night was just unreal. How he was even able to swing a club under that pressure I don't know. I thought coming off 18 he was crushed but to go back and play the same hole again immediately and finish with a birdie, it just shows what he is made of.
I couldn't be happier for him, after everything he has been through, every cruel disappointment, it's all worth it now.
The greatest ever sportsman this island has produced and he's not finished yet.
 
It was the most incredible sporting event I've ever seen. Glued to it from the 1st. Those lows, those highs. That shot from the trees. That shot on 15. Those 2 double bogeys. The heart-ache of the missed putt on 18. Almost the same 2nd shot in the play-off that he messed up in regulation. The composure through-out. The release of emotions. It's was just an amazing event to witness.
 
I think, if I was a family member of Rory's, I couldn't watch it, too much tension ... I wouldn't be huge into golf* but you could sense last night had that something special in sports of high stakes drama and a season\career\legacy on the line.

The pressure was immense. Every shot for him was like a penalty in a penalty shoot out, played out over hours.

* So the early posts on this thread were especially confusing to me as I thought I was watching the Masters last night...
 
We were all watching a master slip on the green jacket....at last. What a rollercoaster round of golf. He finally got there in the end and got the one he wanted most..
 
Firefly said:
It was the most incredible sporting event I've ever seen.
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Yes, it was incredible. But I don't think it is a match for Denis Taylor beating Steve Davis in the 1985 World Snooker final. As the commentator said "the final ball, in the final frame". Taylor was the underdog against the almost invincible Steve Davis but made at least two Lazarus style recoveries in the 35 frame final (8-0 at one stage) and the black ball fight at 1.0c in the morning was almost unbearable.
And just to score a nativist point, Denis, like Rory are from the same NI tribe as yours truly. (But did O'Neill really have to say "first man from this island..."?)
 
I beg to differ Duke. This was epic. It was Rory aiming to become only the 6th person ever to win the grand slam. The last one being 25 years ago. It was 11 years of people asking is this the year. The pressure was more than anything I have ever witnessed in any sporting occasion. Once Bryson was out of it the crowd were almost entirely willing him to do it. It was something he could have lost after the first hole but he recovered. He could have lost it after the 13th but he recovered. He could have lost it after the 18th but he recovered. By that stage everyone present wanted to witness the grand slam, wanted to be able to say they were there.
Back in Ireland it was almost like a case of "A nation holds it's breath" followed swiftly by "A nation kicks it's cat"* followed again by "A nation holds it's breath". Incredible drama made all the better by him finally getting there in the end.

* I wish to point out that this is obviously in the metaphorical sense only!
 
It’s obviously personal. The two events share the same roller coaster atributes. But of course I agree that the Masters is of much greater significance than World snooker.
 
Duke of Marmalade said:
But of course I agree that the Masters is of much greater significance than World snooker.
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Not sure about that Duke. Snooker has a huge following in China which doesn't seem to have embraced golf. The Masters is an equal amongst 4 majors per annum whilst the World snooker championship is definitively the pinnacle of the year in that sport.
 
Duke of Marmalade said:
Snooker has a huge following in China
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But not in 1985, not even in black and white :)

On a separate point, snooker players are at the table a lot more, and can write off losing games \ coast a winning one as it is "match play". In golf every stroke counts to the final outcome, so each stroke has more pressure.
 
odyssey06 said:
On a separate point, snooker players are at the table a lot more, and can write off losing games \ coast a winning one as it is "match play". In golf every stroke counts to the final outcome, so each stroke has more pressure.
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I think I get the point:confused:
The other big difference is that a snooker match can be won very easily and convincingly. I think most golf tournaments are still "live" till at least the 3rd last of the 72 holes.
An interesting thought piece is a snooker match decided by total points, so that each game of itself has no significance. It would mean of course that every game would need to be played out and the scope for match fixing seems enormous, John Higgins would love it ;)
 
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odyssey06 said:
That's the first time I've thought about the difference between scoring based on 'stroke' and 'match' play
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I thought there was a danger, at the start of the Masters yesterday, that Rory could have been drawn into a Matchplay scenario with BdC as the two of them were a nice bit ahead of the pack and the previous match they played at the US Open last year. Added to that, both players hit the ball a mile so it could have turned into a driving contest. That early double bogey probably helped Rory in that regards. The collapse of BdC was a bit unexpected for me.

We got the best of both worlds though - the main event in Strokeplay but the playoff is Matchplay!
 
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