Conor McKeon

Longer even.

And he hasn't had any sort of normal life since then.

He didn't have a normal life before that.

No, no.

But as an adult, what I mean is that every room that he ever walked into, everybody is staring at him all the time.

He has no idea how normal people interact with one another.

So this is what happens basically when people are brought up in a way that's really, really artificial and they don't have the normal human experiences of dealing with other people on the level, like genuine human interaction.

And it comes across from Woods.

He has always used other people around him.

That brilliant biography that came out a couple of years ago.

He's always used people as kind of disposable human resources to kind of help him on his way to greatness.

I'm always wondering the point at which these things become too self-indulgent.

It was something about how his, what do you call it, his strategy around Augusta had changed with the change in the shape of the course and the change in his own game because he's had to change his... That's why he didn't put the question in.

Because I wasn't pitying him.

But he actually gave quite a long and elaborate answer.

And then there was an American journalist beside me who asked an actually good question and he gave him like...

one syllable response.

Obviously, what was that question?

I can't remember what it was, but I remember thinking, oh, I should have asked that.

But I asked a colleague afterwards, I said, what was that about?