Part of me wants Rory McIlroy to run away with this thing. A bigger part of me wants him to turn this into another debacle.<\/p>\n
I love Rory as a golfer. He\u2019s young, super talented, seems grounded and humble and seems like a great young ambassador for the game. However, I also like drama on the weekends at major championships.<\/p>\n
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Do you realize how good of a golf tournament this would be right now if nobody had invited McIlroy? We\u2019d have about 40 to 50 guys who had a shot to take this home. Now, it\u2019s a one kid race. It\u2019s maybe the best golfer in the world trying to avoid a collapse. It\u2019s hard to imagine that two 71s wouldn\u2019t secure the U.S. Open title for Mr. McIlroy now.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the problem. What Rory did over the past two days leaves me in a spot I don\u2019t like. How can I root for someone to fail? How can I not pull for the guy who suffered the humiliation that was an 80 in the final round at Augusta this April? These are questions I ask myself.<\/p>\n
Please know this Rory – I have no problem with you winning. It would be a nice image to\u00a0 see you hoist the trophy Sunday.<\/p>\n
But if you don\u2019t mind, toss in a few bogeys and balls in the drink on the way. Make the U.S. Open what it should be — a roller coaster ride and not a peaceful stroll in the park.<\/p>\n
I like you Rory. But I like exciting major championships. So I can\u2019t root for you to fire another -11 this weekend. Nope. This is a U.S. Open…I\u2019m pulling for weekend chaos.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Part of me wants Rory McIlroy to run away with this thing. A bigger part of me wants him to turn this into another debacle. I love Rory as a golfer. He\u2019s young, super talented, seems grounded and humble and seems like a great young ambassador for the game. However, I also like drama on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-mouth"],"yoast_head":"\n