Rory McIlroy’s New Approach: Masters Tournament Impact

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00:00this looks like a different Rory McIlroy to me oh yeah uh his demeanor his swing his approach to

00:06the game even on Sundays um and we weren't sure what we were going to get after the meltdown last

00:12year with Bryson DeChambeau so he really seems to have taken it to a different level this is the one

00:18bugaboo this tournament is the one that's escaped him what do we get from him this week well I think

00:24when it comes to Rory it's the history about the masters that really tends to consume some of the

00:30competitors right it's a 17th start it's his 11th chance at the career grand slam everyone all the

00:36pundits are just punishing us with that over and over and over again what it comes down to me for

00:41Rory is is that is he is he familiar with failure and he is we all saw it last year at Pinehurst

00:47right I give Rory his best chance ever to pull this off because his headspace yesterday in the

00:52interview room was pretty darn strong and the ball striking is even better I mean there's only one

00:57guy statistically in Q1 that's hitting the ball better than Rory and Scotty and that's Colin and

01:02we can get to him in a second but Rory for himself his game fits this place he knows exactly what it's

01:08going to take for him it's it's really about not being anxious it's about using that p word again that

01:14patience word like he really just needs to plot his way around for 72 holes he needs to stay close to

01:19the lead because we know that that's the case here at Augusta National but overall I think Rory

01:24is going to make a run whether or not he pulls it off is going to have a lot to do with you know how

01:29much this history haunts him well and Morikawa is the same thing right you'd mentioned nobody's

01:35hitting the ball statistically he's off the charts but what about Sunday that's what you got to worry

01:40about with Morikawa if he's in front you know Morikawa I'll use the word combative and it wasn't

01:47even with the media yesterday it was kind of like with himself you know he was asked another question

01:52about you know leaving Bay Hill not talking to reporters the place where he doubled down at the

01:56players where we were all the great players were we were together last month and Colin like he was

02:02very agitated by asking that question again and he had to explain himself again and he kind of dug

02:08a deeper hole and I'm like man if this guy's like worried about something like this I mean this

02:13shouldn't be anything like close he should have just kind of blew the question off but he dug in

02:17deeper to me that shows he's thinking about Sundays more than you and I are Joe

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