Conor McKeon

Gerry, I think, stopped doing media a while back.

He just... He noticeably seemed to go back into the background.

And I met Gerry a couple of years ago at Augusta and

such a gent but I think when everybody is asking him about Rory all the time he kind of goes Asher is trying his best you know he doesn't get into it with people whereas this was him speaking very genuinely about what it was like when all this was happening and that story those stories about you know the parents who work night shifts and everything else like it sounds so twee and cliche that you nearly expect that it has been hammed up just for the sake of the McElroy story but it's not and that's nearly the most interesting part of it all because

once they got to Augusta in the documentary, in the chronology of it, I'd kind of, I heard everything after that, you know, I saw it in real life and watched it back.

I even, just for my own sake, I watched the Sky coverage of it there recently, sort of fast forward the three hours and it's so epic, it's worth watching it back again.

You know,

It was crazy.

What's mad is that

So the people who were there who were like really experienced said that the crowd, because you forget that DeChambeau, because he became such a non-entity so quickly in the round, but really the overnight story was this is the Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau shootout that we crave since the previous year at Oakmont or at, in the US Open, Pinehurst.

But,

So the crowds around that group were far bigger than anything, even for Tiger's Hay Day.

It was monumental because in Augusta, people like to take up little perches and stay there for the day and watch the kind of tournament come to them.

But there was a hysteria around the group.

And then Rory double bogeyed the first.

Then he parred the second.

Bogeyed the second, wasn't it?

You could actually feel Augusta National, which had been so just hyped up.

And it's not a very hype-y place, but it was hyped up that morning.

You could feel the place deflate.