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Is it me or is Rory turning into the next Monte.

I find myself reaching for my anti-depressants after watching him in majors recently.

If he could just lighten up a little, I'm sure he'd repeat his US Open feat.
 
Despite prodigious talent, he clearly isn't focussed on the golf at the moment. Fortunately he is young, gifted and stll at the start of his career so once he gets his current celeb lifestyle phase sorted he'll be back and winning majors. Can't help thinking if he was still in the Chubby Chandler camp they'd have kept him on track
 
Monty never won a major, McIlroy is just learning the pro game still. He has many MANY years to develop the hardyness needed. Also think of the competition Rory has compared to Monty...
 
ScienceBoy said:
Monty never won a major, McIlroy is just learning the pro game still. He has many MANY years to develop the hardyness needed. Also think of the competition Rory has compared to Monty...
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Monte had Norman, Faldo, Els, Ballesteros, Langer, Woosnam etc etc etc.

Rory has a disgruntled Tiger, a revived Westwood and Luke Donald who wouldn't have lived with Colin in his day.
 
golfsaint said:
Rory is only young and his mind is maybe else where , with his girlfriend :whistle:
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I couldn't believe he turned to his coach yesterday to improve his technique. His problem is attitude and not ability. During his post round interview, he remarked that he didn't trust his ability on a few shots and I firmly believe his problem is more physiological than physical. His round today proved that as he was more involved in swing thoughts than tactics.
 
He's certainly struggling at the moment. Got to agree with the Homer comment regarding leaving Chubby. Such a shame to see 2 talented guys like Rory & Sergio so downbeat and playing poorly. As an amateur, I can understand why they are so down, but they need a bit of fight. They both have the talent to be true greats of the game.
 
Justman said:
He's certainly struggling at the moment. Got to agree with the Homer comment regarding leaving Chubby. Such a shame to see 2 talented guys like Rory & Sergio so downbeat and playing poorly. As an amateur, I can understand why they are so down, but they need a bit of fight. They both have the talent to be true greats of the game.
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I gave up on Sergio about ten years ago. Apart from the ryder cup and one open he's got the same problem as Rory. My fear is that Rory follows in his footsteps.
 
There's no crisis, just a dip in form which on a tough track like Lytham has found him out. Hoping he can go low tomorrow with no pressure and sneak into top 6 to get me my stake back, thought e/w at 20-1 for top 6 was a no brainer but gambling really is for fools!
 
I agree. Can't help but look at Sergio these days and think what a waste of a talent. I'm pretty confident Rory is just going through a bad run of form. I can't think of many sportsmen who don't hit a bad patch at some point in their career.
 
Patrick57 said:
I couldn't believe he turned to his coach yesterday to improve his technique. His problem is attitude and not ability. During his post round interview, he remarked that he didn't trust his ability on a few shots and I firmly believe his problem is more physiological than physical. His round today proved that as he was more involved in swing thoughts than tactics.
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Eh? Aren't you supposed to BE a coach? How can it possibly be strange to turn to your coach when your timing is off?

As it happens it looked like he was having issues with fading the ball and was subsequently drawing the ball to tricky right-hand pin positions... which cost him.

I'd figure when you've already played your way OUT of a tournament then you'd take the next day to practice as much as you possibly can whilst it's possible to measure your score against the rest of a strong field :whistle:
 
ScottishDave said:
Mark Crossfield has posted a trackman analysis of Rory hitting driver on Facebook. It's quite interesting but it would of helped to see what some of the more straighter hitters on tour have for their stats.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=448020761886055
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If you go to Google images and put in "trackman stats" there's a few pro swings available.

Mark Crossfields analysis wasn't quite right as he didn't refer to McIlroy's HSP (horizontal swing plane)... he's actually swinging in-to-out a lot more than Crossfiled describes. The clubpath is actually the direction of the swing +/- the angle UP/DOWN of the path so 12 degrees out MINUS 5 degrees up would give a CLUB HEAD path of 7 degrees.

How McIlroy goes about swinging so far out is the interesting (but unanswered) part of his swing, he must be either a) lining up to the right! b) dropping his plane massively to the inside and risking getting stuck but trackman can't tell us which it is. When you're swinging that far out a change in your alignment can cause huge problems... and Rory did start to get a little closed a few months back....

All that said, is driving really his problem or is he simply missing 2 or 3 putts per round that he'd normally make?... that would put him 8-12 shots behind over 4 rounds of golf!!!!
 
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