Rory McIlroy - 4 Time Major Winner

Pogue eile wrote: »

:D yeah that's an accurate summary of this game lol

You are correct of course, we could talk about his woeful putting, poor decision making, ropey wedge play etc. But a lot of the time his length off the tee and laser like long irons compensate for those short comings. Problem now is that there are lots of big hitters on tour who bomb the ball off the tee and reach par 5s in two.

Pogue eile wrote: »

Golf must be in an awful state so if he has all those shortcomings and is still ranked no. 2 in the world, current Fed Ex cup holder and no. 5 in this years rankings.

Interesting to know what the 'etc.' refers to as well, you obviously have a very long list?

He's just woeful altogether. He should get a lesson.

Dav010 wrote: »

To be honest, I find replying to your posts difficult, but I’ll have a go. You said his A game is untouchable, it isnt, many players can now he the ball as far and further. Where once he compensated for shortcomings in other aspects of his game by the fact that he scored better on par 5s than anyone else, now with the lengths other players hit the ball, that isn’t as big an advantage as it used to be. Yes he was No 1, because he is obviously one of the best players in the world, but the last couple of weeks have shown that being a huge hitter is not in itself good enough when the likes of Rahm, Keopke, DeChambeau drive just as far.

In short, his A game is not untouchable, and he now has to bring his A game to win.

You are all over the place man, make up your mind!

One would think with over 250 posts in this thread alone slating MicIllroy that you have all the answers.

Your clear and obvious hatred of the man is pathetic to be quite frank and is clearly a personality issue as opposed to his golf game.

OEP wrote: »

Just like some people over play how good he is, you really like to over play his shortcomings. He won 4 times last year ffs, against all of those people who can hit it as far and further than him.

His shortcomings are there to see, and be commented on. Lets look at it another way, if McIlroy was a short/average hitter of the ball, would the rest of his game be good enough to get to number 1? His length off the tee gave him an advantage, that advantage is now smaller because a lot of other players hit the ball just as far. You can see that he is still hitting the ball as far as he was last year but others have caught him. Other parts of his game, and decision making have cost him recently, hence why he is no longer No1.

Dav010 wrote: »

His shortcomings are there to see, and be commented on. Lets look at it another way, if McIlroy was a short/average hitter of the ball, would the rest of his game be good enough to get to number 1? His length off the tee gave him an advantage, that advantage is now smaller because a lot of other players hit the ball just as far. You can see that he is still hitting the ball as far as he was last year but others have caught him. Other parts of his game, and decision making have cost him recently, hence why he is no longer No1.

Have to disagree here, yes he had distance but he drove it far AND he was accurate when in full flow. Others haven't caught up to him in that regard....yet

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

He's just woeful altogether. He should get a lesson.

I’m pretty sure he gets coaching from Michael Bannon, or at least he used to. I’d say most top golfers still get coaching even though they are professionals and the best players in the world.

Deleted User wrote: »

He turned 31 in May, miles past it. And recently tumbled to number two in the world, hasn't a prayer of staying competitive.

His last 4 starts have been useless. With his talent he should be in the Top 1 every week.

Dav010 wrote: »

His shortcomings are there to see, and be commented on. Lets look at it another way, if McIlroy was a short/average hitter of the ball, would the rest of his game be good enough to get to number 1? His length off the tee gave him an advantage, that advantage is now smaller because a lot of other players hit the ball just as far. You can see that he is still hitting the ball as far as he was last year but others have caught him. Other parts of his game, and decision making have cost him recently, hence why he is no longer No1.

It’s not just this year that guys have caught up with him . For four or fives years now a fair few guys have been as long if not longer . JT, Rahm, Bubba, JB Holmes , koepka, Dustin Johnson to name a few off the top of my head . It didn’t stop him going from 8 th in the world to no 1 . If he has shortcomings in other parts of his game then these other guys shortcomings are worse

rooney30 wrote: »

It’s not just this year that guys have caught up with him . For four or fives years now a fair few guys have been as long if not longer . JT, Rahm, Bubba, JB Holmes , koepka, Dustin Johnson to name a few off the top of my head . It didn’t stop him going from 8 th in the world to no 1 . If he has shortcomings in other parts of his game then these other guys shortcomings are worse

Yip, that’s a fair point, and if this thread was about any one of them, we could give an opinion about him, but as it’s about Rory McIlroy, we are kinda restricted.

fullstop wrote: »

You mentioned half of them on the previous page, did you not? But now they’re not to be mentioned because your point was shown up for what it was?

What? I have no idea what this means. I responded to Rooney’s post, if you want to discuss other players short comings, crack on, I’m happy to join in, but I’m not sure that loads of posts specifically about other golfers will be appreciated on this thread about Rory McIlroy.

fullstop wrote: »

You cited Rahm, DeChambeau and Keopke (sp) being able to hit the ball as far as McIlroy as part of the reason he’s not world #1 anymore, but as was rightly pointed out, they’ve been hitting the ball as far as him for quite some time, but it didn’t stop him winning 4 times last year and getting to #1.
You then changed tack and said this thread is about McIlroy and not the other lads.

Fullstop, I’m happy for this thread to be about whoever you want it to be about. Lead on, I’ll chime in.

McIlroy has played consistently well for a year, less so over the last couple of months when his short game and decision making has let him down. This isn’t my opinion alone, he has said it himself in interviews. When his driving is good but the rest isn’t firing, his driving and long irons aren’t the saving graces they used to be, because others are just as long or even longer. Another poster said on his A game, he is untouchable, his A game isn’t there are the moment so he hasn’t been in the top 10 since the break, that is the point Game of Golf was making, and that I translated for Rooney.

If you look at the major winners for the last couple of years, most are pretty big hitters too, surprisingly, Spieth is averaging only 11 yards less than McIlroy off the tee now, for some reason I had it in my mind that he was one of the shorter hitters in the top echelons of the Tour, but as you know his game has dropped off a bit since 2015 level. There you go. ðŸ˜

Golf is my Game wrote: »

In a way that a good summary off him to be fair. Sure he can get other stuff right but its more intermitent than some others but its not just his lengt, when he playing his best its his combination of really long driving yet still splitting the fair way which is totally different thing to the Bryson thing. Of course the rest of Rorys game is top top level since he a world great golfer but relative to other in the top 10 at any time and to other multy major winners the rest of his game is patch. Add to that a dodgy mental thing which ramps up at majors and you can see why hes a lad that sure looks at times like he should be a 8-10 major level guy but a bumbled the last 5 years which were his prime and will do well now, perfectly possible mind, to get one or two more. Itl still be a great carear.

I’m not sure who these other top 10 players are , that far exceed Mcilroy in other aspects of the game ?