Forget Tiger Woods.
Welcome to the Rory McIlroy era in golf. All the 22-year-old from Northern Ireland did over the weekend was lap both the fabled Congressional Country Club outside the nation’s capital, as well as the rest of the field in capturing the U.S. Open title in a runaway.
McIlroy was a wire-to-wire winner, setting new records each day for the number of strokes under par.
He wound up at 16 under, an unheard of number at the Open. Usually golfers complain about how difficult the Open setup is, but this year all they could do was wonder how low McIlroy was going to go.
How good was he? Consider the plight of Jason Day. He shot eight under, a number that very often will put you at the top of the leaderboard on Sunday at the Open.
Yesterday it left him a distant second, eight shots behind McIlroy.
The win come just a few months after an equally dominant first three days performance at the Masters went up in smoke when he shot 82 on Sunday.
A lot of people wondered how McIlroy would handle his second trip in the top spot at a major. They didn’t have to wait long. This one was never in doubt.
Consider this: If McIlroy had not blown up at Augusta, he would be halfway to a “Rory Slam,” capturing both the majors contested so far this season.
Now it’s on to the British Open. Don’t bet against him.
Tiger who?
Welcome to the Rory McIlroy era in golf. All the 22-year-old from Northern Ireland did over the weekend was lap both the fabled Congressional Country Club outside the nation’s capital, as well as the rest of the field in capturing the U.S. Open title in a runaway.
McIlroy was a wire-to-wire winner, setting new records each day for the number of strokes under par.
He wound up at 16 under, an unheard of number at the Open. Usually golfers complain about how difficult the Open setup is, but this year all they could do was wonder how low McIlroy was going to go.
How good was he? Consider the plight of Jason Day. He shot eight under, a number that very often will put you at the top of the leaderboard on Sunday at the Open.
Yesterday it left him a distant second, eight shots behind McIlroy.
The win come just a few months after an equally dominant first three days performance at the Masters went up in smoke when he shot 82 on Sunday.
A lot of people wondered how McIlroy would handle his second trip in the top spot at a major. They didn’t have to wait long. This one was never in doubt.
Consider this: If McIlroy had not blown up at Augusta, he would be halfway to a “Rory Slam,” capturing both the majors contested so far this season.
Now it’s on to the British Open. Don’t bet against him.
Tiger who?
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