Conor McKeon

There was no great swipe that time on 11 in Augusta.

But all it has to be is a fraction of a millimetre off centre

And if you hit the ball as hard and as high and as quickly as Rory McIlroy, and it's not right out of the sweet spot, it's Armageddon.

It's absolute Armageddon.

So like he flies very close to the sun and what you have is those two extremes and his personality matches the game.

And when you tie it up together in a bundle, that's why he's such a compelling sporting figure.

Yeah, I did an interview with Robbie Cannon, who's Rory McIlroy's strength and conditioning, or Shane Lowry's strength and conditioning coach, for one of the papers this weekend.

And he would have played against both of them as an amateur.

Like...

Robbie's like a three-time Irish amateur champion, but he said that he played against Rory McIlroy for the first time when he was 15.

And it was like straight away he knew, like he had an aura about him as a 15 year old and the way he hit the ball was just absolutely impeccable.

But I asked him about that.

I said like, but he was able to hit the ball so beautifully, even when he was a little kind of pudgy kid.

And he said he wasn't really, he just, it's like he didn't play kind of soccer or anything like that growing up.

So he wasn't that athletic anymore.

And he might have just had a little bit of kind of puppy fat around the thing.

But like, it's all technique with Rory.

That's the thing.

You know, you could see he is well built now, but he's, you know, even when you stand beside him, he isn't that tall.

And everything that he has comes from pure technique.