Michael Foley

Well, you know, it's really interesting to listen to someone like Gavin, who was obviously on the scene, and his perception of what we're watching on television with the comfort of the commentator and a little bit of analysis and the cam talk, you know, the cam talk.

You know, yeah, he's just got to splash this one out to 15 feet.

Like, my sense of it watching last night was...

I wasn't nervous at all through the whole thing.

Even early on in the round when you were looking at the bogey, the double bogey, you were like, okay, you're even looking at McIlroy walking up the fairway on the seven and the head is down.

But to me, it was more like, right, he's preparing himself now.

He's really calibrating what needs to be done next.

Where does he need to get to?

And funny enough, in the press conferences afterwards, he was kind of talking about, you know, he had recalibrated.

He wanted to be level power, I think, by the turn.

And somewhere along the way, he thought, you know, minus 14 would probably win this.

So everything is getting recalibrated in his brain rather than going haywire.

I'm not saying that didn't happen last year.

But that sense of sort of, okay, I have this, like, you know, I've won this tournament before.

Like, all of his collective experience and success over the years has now been capped by winning the one tournament he always wanted to win.

I know how to win this.

So the only moment, I don't know about you guys, but the only moment I kind of got a little bit, oh, hey-ho, was the tee shot on 18.

But even at that...

As he's walking away over towards the 10th fairway, you're going, this guy is the king shot maker.

And this is one of the great shot making courses on the planet.