Michael Wilbon
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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.
In fact, on our morning show on Life of the Masters, Aaron Oberholzer is one of our analysts on the set, and he said, he goes, the last thing Rory wants today...
He does not want this to be really tight.
If Scheffler makes that birdie putt at 17 after making the birdie at 15, by the way, Scheffler, it's amazing how golf is displayed.
We never really think about bad calls, bad plays, a drop pass in the first quarter or a missed shot or a missed layup or a missed free throw in the first or second quarter.