Paul McGinley

Rory's going to stand on these tees and go, wow, I mean, this is as wide a fairway corridor as you will see anywhere all season long.

So that will give him a level of confidence that he doesn't have to be exactly precise with his driving that, you know, with 40 to 60 yard wide fairways that, you know, he can be still off and have a distinct advantage by coming from the fairway.

So,

It is a test that is not going to be that important for driving accuracy.

It's going to be more so about mentality and short game.

And I think mentality and short game are where he's excelling at the moment.

Yeah, I agree.

As I say, that's the evolution of Rory.

I mean, he's such a different player than he was when he was winning majors back in the early 2010s.

And he used to take a golf course and wrestle it to the ground.

He was longer and straighter than anybody else.

And he was making mincemeat of these golf courses, hitting wedges in where guys were hitting seven and six irons.

And he changed the game to a large extent.

Rory McIlroy doesn't get enough credit for how the game is played now, where power has become so important.

When he came on and played this game, nobody else was playing this game.

And I'll go back to giving the credit to JP Fitzgerald as caddy at the time, my old caddy JP.

When JP came on the bag with him, he goes, what are you doing hitting two irons off the tee, Rory?

This is nonsense.

I mean, you're a straight with the driver as you are with this.

You've got a huge advantage.