Alan Shipnuck

This is going to get very interesting.

And yeah, and the way he looked very timid on the greens, he was still not fully in control of his golf ball.

So I totally agreed.

There was no life in Rory.

But he's shown us so many times.

He can take so many punches and he just keeps coming back for more.

And then...

Basically, from the seventh hole on, he just started flushing the ball.

It was like he remembered he's Roy McIlroy, and he's defending champion, and he just played with more freedom.

You could see his swing just look tighter.

It took basically one swing for him to get back to where he needed to be, and

And then, yeah, you saw it on 13.

He had unleashed his best tee shot of the week, but he absolutely had to have it.

He still has the fastball.

I mean, he drove that one 350.

Didn't hit a great second shot, but hit it in a safe spot, got up and down.

And that was a crucial moment.

And that little iron shot in 12, you know, that's the scariest hole in championship golf.

And he just stuffed it in there.

And even, you know, even though he had missed that putt on nine, it's like all of a sudden he just started believing he was going to make putts when he had to.