Michael Wilbon
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for the most majors of any European player, but he has the caveat and the tiebreaker of winning a career Grand Slam.
He won three Masters and three Open Championships.
So, to me, he's the best European player of all time.
And I think he probably is somewhere around 10 or 11, maybe 12 at the least, all time.
However, the biggest prevailing thought to me is he is more Arnie and Phil than
There's nothing consistent about Rory McIlroy and how he goes about winning these big time events.
on a roller coaster ride, and so were his fans the last four days.
I just think that people need to realize that sometimes resiliency is
comes through and he is an awfully resilient player he has dealt with a lot on and off the golf course and then you think of the ghosts he had at Augusta National and trying to finish last year trying to win the career grand slam I thought it was really interesting to hear him say last night that he thought it was hard to win the masters because it was trying to complete the career grand slam no it's just hard to win the masters and when you have a double bogey Jack Nicklaus told us
And he told Rory to his face, you cannot make a double bogey and go on to win.
Well, last year he had four or more double bogeys for the week.
That's the most of anybody in Masters history.
Craig Stadler had three double bogeys in 1982, but Rory had four or more last year.
This week, this past week anyway, he had a double bogey yesterday, a terrible, untimely double bogey.