Kevin Van Valkenburg

If you're a Roy McIlroy fan, those greens were just so weird and so bumpy.

And so, you know, they were fast, but soft.

And so I think it's kind of more, more of a good sign that he, you know, his approach games looks really good.

His wedge game looks really good.

He's figured out how to play the kind of golf where you change trajectories and you change heights and you,

can throw kind of, if in a baseball term, throw sliders and throw fastballs and throw knuckleballs even when you have to.

And he seems to be mentally in a pretty good place.

He's pretty light, didn't seem bothered or angered or annoyed by anything in this stretch, even though it didn't result in victories.

So I'm kind of bullish on him going forward.

The players can always sort of be a little bit of a,

know a crapshoot in terms of do you get a bunch of wind one day do you get are you in a wave that you know it's really cold in the morning or it's just uh it's a tough golf course um but you know driving it really well like that's kind of huge and i just think he's going to be able to to put himself in contention in a big tournament uh with that with what he has going on right now

Yeah, you think about this, like when Rory first got on the top 10, Scotty Scheffler's 11 years old.

And yet they seem kind of like their contemporaries, right?

And part of that is Scotty just is an old soul.

He looks a little bit like older than he sort of is, but 11 years old.

And Rory was contending at the Masters, and then they'll come to this year's Masters, and they'll still both be in contention.

So it just shows... What I think is interesting about Rory is...

he has adapted and changed as golf has changed, right?

Back when he first came in there, not every driver head was as big as possible it could be.

Not every shaft was maximized.