He finishes like a Mayo forward.
The only time I recall him being faced down and beaten in a genuine head to head in a major was by YE Yang at the 2009 US PGA.
I’d say Harry will get the bullet in the next couple of weeks.
Apart from the first, which he birdied all four days, he played the sixth in -1 for the week, the eighth in -2 and the 14th in level-par, but crucially, when it mattered most on Sunday he covered the latter three in one-over.
Rory’s long-range putting was extremely good and lady luck just evaded him, but he missed too many of the makable putts.
11 feet on three, 22 feet on four, four feet on eight, 12 feet on nine, 15 feet on 10, 19 feet on 11, 9 feet on 14, and 19 feet on 15. The eighth hole aside, none of those are putts that even top pros have a better than 50% success rate on, but you have to hole a couple of them. He didn’t, and that was the difference.
That and the time the wife found out he was cheating on her.
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Indeed the resemblance to Mayo is uncanny. Practically as long threshing around in the wilderness.
In his resilient mode he’s Boyle and Barrett with a surge of Keegan by times. It’s up front though…
The occasional 25’ holed putt is vintage Moran in the full red socks, sniping in and finding the spot.
Then the Hail Mary ones are vintage CoC, hoping and coming close but ultimately a Níl……
Patience paid off again pal
Rory was making the point in some interview on the radio this morning that Jack Nicklaus had 19 second placed finishes in majors to go with the 18 he won. As Rory was saying if you keep getting in contention you’ll pick up a few.
He’ll surely win The Open at Royal Liverpool. He won it the last time it was played there.
When you’d look back on it, as I suppose they do, he missed a few thoroughly gettable ones from 6’-8’……
Works both ways I suppose , he made some great putts to save Par too but nobody talks about those when you finish second a shot back.
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Era he has no excuses really. It was teed up for him. Scheffler imploded and all he had left was a player whos career derailed and has always been mentally fragile and a promising former collegiate player but one with little to no major experience of this nature. He had a solid front 9 and positioned himself well and had a back 9 stretch to see it out but couldnt get it done.
Clark probably suffered from playing with Fowler who was all over the place. Normally good play by a playing partner can give you a tow into the race. The ruling on the par 5 was in my view gamesmanship. If you drive ball into face of bunker there has to be a penalty. Instead Mcilroy got to drop it a yard or 2 nearer the hole. He took 3 attempts to drop the ball in the rough to give himself best possible lie and in the end justice was done. He should have been looking at a 7 or an 8 in reality.
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Nonsense. The rule is clear, whether you agree with it or not.
I dont see how a ball gets embedded from a 124 yard wedge shot through thick bermuda rough. I can see how it would be buried in the rough alright. Players kind of self adjudicate these decisions themselves. A lowly rules official is rarely going to upset the apple cart in those moments. In any case its another stupid golf rule.
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Day 1
Fowler 62
Rose 76
Hence the word normally and not all the time.
It was on the tv in front of you and you come up with this angle 
You’d have to say that the thing looked very hooky in fairness. The rule was brought in to stop fellas hacking up soft wet ground, not where a ball ends up in an unplayable lie.
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Rory reckoned they owed him after he turned down all that Saudi money.
He’s won a few All Irelands though