Michael Foley
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Like the only one, as you say, was Scheffler.
Scheffler was perfection.
for the final two rounds he was the one who made the charge but the rest sort of they just could not get it together whereas Rory did what to be fair great champions do in all sorts of sports he just hung in he waited for the rest
to kind of fall off.
And so long as I can hold myself together in so far, in so far as Rory holds himself together, because we have to remember, I mean, I always thought like in the back of Rory's mind, he knows he's a great shot maker.
So even if the kind of the basic stuff goes wrong, he's always going to back himself to create.
So, so long as he still had that, you know, that, that wand at his disposal, he would have always felt, I think, especially having won it last year, that I'm just going to make this happen.
Well, it comes back again to the... It comes back again, I suppose, it's two sides of a coin there.
You've got the McElroy side, but then you've got everybody else.
So I wonder how many players left Augusta
on Sunday evening going, geez, you know, did I have a better chance than I gave myself?
You know, so there is that side to it, which is, as you mentioned there, the kind of, the Kerry, Kilkenny, whatever else in the GAA particularly, there's plenty of teams that are left in those years going, geez, that was a great chance if we could have got it together.
But there's a reason why they didn't win.
And that's, in this case, it's Rory.
And it's, like you say there, like he didn't produce his best performance
Golf, maybe not in the purest sense of the word, but this is, you know, tournament golf is tournament golf and major golf is another thing again.
Like you win whatever way you got to win.
You play whatever's in front of you and you work it out.
Gavin mentioned there about kind of keeping an eye on the scoreboard and all that sort of thing.
Again, that comes from just years of experience, like, and, you know,