OT: The Open Championship

[uconnfan68]

My original comment was in reply to someone that said Rory didn’t seem right coming in. My reply was that he should have won the us open 4 weeks ago, and according to accounts his personal life was status quo before the us open. Nothing that we know changed since the us. open….except his atrocious play

That’s why golf is just a 4 letter word.

 

[IndyLives]

My original comment was in reply to someone that said Rory didn’t seem right coming in. My reply was that he should have won the us open 4 weeks ago, and according to accounts his personal life was status quo before the us open. Nothing that we know changed since the us. open….except his atrocious play

Once the putter goes, its over. Doesnt matter how good a ball-striker you are, or how long you hit it.

Rory has always been a below average "clutch" putter, imo, and, putting is mostly mental. That's not going to suddenly change in his mid 30s. Watson was one of the best ball-strikers well into his 40s, but he lost his putting stroke in his mid-30s and never won another Major, although he was close.

 

[alphasigko]

Once the putter goes, its over. Doesnt matter how good a ball-striker you are, or how long you hit it.

Rory has always been a below average "clutch" putter, imo, and, putting is mostly mental. That's not going to suddenly change in his mid 30s. Watson was one of the best ball-strikers well into his 40s, but he lost his putting stroke in his mid-30s and never won another Major, although he was close.

Yes,... He missed that 4 footer to win The Open in 2009 and wound up losing ito Cink in the eventual playoff at Turnberry. 4 to 6 footers were Watson's nightmare at rhe end of his career.

 

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[uconnfan68]

Yes but that happened before the US open. Nothing personally (at least publicly) changed since then. He choked away the Us Open

Those things happened recently. They’re call major life events for a reason. You sound like you lost money on him.