Alan Shipnuck

In some ways, it's his most impressive victory on the big stage because he never really had his A game.

And we know that Rory's driver is his superpower.

It's the differentiator.

And he did not overwhelm this golf course with his driver.

It was chipping, putting.

It was managing himself.

It was squeezing the most out of his rounds on Thursday and Friday.

And then when the jacket was there for the taking on Sunday, when everything was going sideways, he made that double bogey.

He bogeyed six, bogeyed.

But the whole tournament's been thrown into chaos.

Then he found it, and he started flushing the ball.

And he hit great shots, obviously, on seven.

That six iron into number eight was world class.

The shot he hit into 12 was kind of going to be the defining birdie.

That's the scariest shot in championship golf.

He went right at that flag.

Yeah, yeah.

When he needed it most, he kind of accessed his genius, but then he was still holding on coming in.

You know, we saw it on 17 and 18.

Those were great escapes.