Eddie Pepperell

He's fit, he looks up for the fight, he's playing better.

There's a guy who could go and win a major this year or contend, and I don't think you could have said that about him a year ago.

We initially started on where Rory sits.

In my mind, he sits with a few others just beneath Jack and Tiger.

Jack and Tiger, I think, are the best two ever, obviously.

But I would put Rory in the next layer of players.

I don't really care whether he's got six or ten majors.

Yeah, I'm happy to put Phil there, but I would put Rory alongside Ben Hogan, Tom Watson.

Ben Hogan?

Yeah, I really would.

No, because of the generation that Rory's playing in, the time he's playing in, the game has never been more competitive, never been more global.

How do you know that?

Well, okay, I don't know, but that's my thoughts.

But I think he's exciting.

He's won everything there is to win.

He's a force in the Ryder Cup.

Other than Jack and Tiger, I can't believe for a moment you could say there's been a better player than Rory McIlroy.

He's as good as, and I'm a big fan of Sam Snead and Ben Hogan and these lot, but comparing generations is impossible.

But I do think it's fair to say that the more modernity than the...

you can expect it to be tougher because it's more competitive because there's just more people trying to do it.