Conor McKeon
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And as they were standing on that third tee box, which was such an important one, like DeChambeau should have taken out his driver that day, and he didn't.
But because of the way they do things in Augusta and nobody has a phone and they change all the scoreboards manually.
As we were standing on the third tee box, you could hear the groans from two holes over when they just changed the scoreboard.
And Rory McIlroy could definitely hear it on the tee.
And it was the groans of people finding out what had just happened on the first tee.
He did that really well in the documentary.
It's a bit like the most famous golf shot of all time.
Tigers chip in on 16 all those years ago.
People forget that he went on and bogeyed 17.
An 18.
An 18, sorry.
That's the in and the out of Rory McIlroy.
I remember listening to Adam Scott talking about him...
And he said, look, the thing about Rory is that he hits the ball so hard and high and spectacularly.
And when you do that and it comes off, what you have is the US Open in 2011 when he obliterated the field.
There's a great clip of Padraig Harrington doing an interview where he said that was the day that he knew he was broken because he was playing the best golf of anybody in the world going into that tournament.
And he was miles off Rory McIlroy.
But what happens is when the thing is such a fraction off, this comes back to the big, long, windy conversation me and Joe had about how hard golf is.
Oh, yeah.
Like, you look at the swing that he had.