Gavin Cooney

I'm in the heart of America, Eoin.

I'm at a Starbucks at the side of some motorway.

Drive through Starbucks, which means it's actually fairly quiet.

I'm the only person that seemingly has deigned to get out of the car.

So if you do hear the steam of the coffee machine or whatever terrible music is playing in the background, I can only apologise.

Yeah.

So I was standing right behind the 12th where McElroy hit in that amazing shot.

And in a neat bit of nominative determinism, I believe the man standing in front of me was Premier League CEO Richard Masters, who was with

Gareth Southgate so the wind picked up just before McElroy hit into 12 and Masters turned around and kind of puffed his cheeks out in anticipating disaster in Southgate's direction who obviously Southgate didn't react at all you know he's this exquisite equanimity of Gareth Southgate and then McElroy hit it in an amazing shot Masters absolutely loved it and Southgate I think enjoyed it but he was back in his exquisite equanimity phase and

Did I feel like, you know, leaning into masteries and asking about the whole 115 charges there, pal, are you working on that?

But yeah, like it's, Rafa Nadal was following McElroy around like a puppy chasing a car for four days.

Like he was running down fairways and running into the rope shouting.

I remember him shouting after Rory drove the green on Saturday.

And I don't speak Spanish, but I did pick up para eagle, para eagle.

Yeah.

from Nadal.

So yeah, Peter O'Mahony was out there as well.

He was mostly following Shane Lowry.

I think he resisted the temptation to drop back and follow Rory's last few holes.

So yeah, real who's who around Augusta.