Gavin Cooney

Well, there were tears on the 18th green.

I didn't think that there were any more tears left to cry on that green, but maybe it was because his parents were there this year, having missed it last year.

He dropped to his haunches just before that tap-in put to win it and suddenly found tears leaking from his eyes.

But afterwards, it was a bit more of...

It was kind of a more understated relief than last year.

He was puffing out his cheeks and rolling his eyes in the sense of, bloody hell, I made hard work of that.

That kind of sense.

Rather than, thank God, I've lifted this demon that's been squatting on my shoulders for nearly 20 years.

And then afterwards in the press conference, he was in great mood and very chirpy and patient and chatting everything.

But it was a little bit more routine and more businesslike, as you might expect.

And routine and businesslike is...

broadly I think what we could kind of attribute to describing the round although there were a few kind of characteristically Rory up and down moments but definitely more comfortable and at ease this year

No, I think so.

And the one you didn't include there, and I got a good side of it up at the back of the grandstand on 15, that wedge over the water.

Oh, yeah.

That was maybe two feet away from landing in the wrong spot and rolling back in.

Honestly, he diced with death there as well.

You know, not a great shot.

And he said afterwards that the wind caught it and knocked it down.

As soon as he hit it, he was talking to that ball, kind of ushering, like shoving his arms away from his body, saying, go, go, go.