It'll rip your guts out

[Tommy Williamsen]

I played in a club tournament years ago. My playing partner had a two-shot lead on the par five 18th hole. It is an easy five, but he made an 8 with a shank and a short missed putt. He looked at me and said, "Golf, it will rip your guts out." If you play golf long enough, you get it. I know Rory does.

[Rob Marshall]

Anyone who’s played scratch tournament golf has thrown up on themselves a few times. While certainly not like playing in professional majors, but when you pull it off it’s a great rush……

[cary lichtenstein]

Rory is a great player, he hasn't won a major in 10 years, I was rooting for him for the past 5 years, sorry but today's misses will really do lasting damage to him and I wish it weren't true

[Jeff Schley]

Anyone who’s played scratch tournament golf has thrown up on themselves a few times. While certainly not like playing in professional majors, but when you pull it off it’s a great rush……

Rob I’m still waiting for my rush.   

[Tim Martin]

I feel for Rory and hope his psyche can recover although I fear that’s a tall order at least in the short term. I don’t like his chances of winning another major anytime soon.

[Tom_Doak]

I feel for Rory and hope his psyche can recover although I fear that’s a tall order at least in the short term. I don’t like his chances of winning another major anytime soon.

He's got one more chance next month on a course which should suit him better.  [Fewer dicey putts.]  After that, he's got to sleep on it for nine months, which won't help.

[BHoover]

I feel for Rory and hope his psyche can recover although I fear that’s a tall order at least in the short term. I don’t like his chances of winning another major anytime soon.

I hope Rory can win at least one more major, but the scar tissue of this one in particular may be tough to overcome. Maybe he will get it done at Troon and put all this behind him. But I don’t know how you overcome the scar of giving away the US Open on a silver platter by missing two putts that were collectively, what, 6 feet?

The other thing to keep in mind, and I’ve seen Mike Clayton make this point, who would have guessed that Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson never won another major at age 34. They each were at the top of their game and never won another one. Seve too was in his early 30s when he won his last major. Rory is now 35 and, despite being in his golfing prime, nothing is guaranteed. Really, only Nicklaus, Trevino, Phil, and Tiger won majors both early (or earlier for Phil) and later in their careers.

On the other hand, Adam Scott coughed up a four-stroke lead over four holes at Lytham in 2012. That was excruciating to see, yet he came back the following year and won the Masters. Maybe something similar will happen for Rory. But he will never have a better chance than he had yesterday walking off the 13th green at Pinehurst.

[George Pazin]

The other thing to keep in mind, and I’ve seen Mike Clayton make this point, who would have guessed that Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson never won another major at age 34. They each were at the top of their game and never won another one. Seve too was in his early 30s when he won his last major. Rory is now 35 and, despite being in his golfing prime, nothing is guaranteed.

Jack and Tiger warped reality for everyone. They made golf look too routine, too perfectable. Maybe Hogan and Jones, too, but in the TV era, it’s been Jack and Tiger.

[Tommy Williamsen]

The putt on 18 was very dicey. Brandel noted after Rory hit the pitch that a downhill left to right breaker was not the putt he wanted. He aimed way outside the hole and still missed it.

[JLahrman]

The putt on 18 was very dicey. Brandel noted after Rory hit the pitch that a downhill left to right breaker was not the putt he wanted. He aimed way outside the hole and still missed it.

I was watching with my 8 year old son and my mother-in-law who knows nothing about golf, and I shouted "He's way too open, he's going to swipe across it and miss!" He didn't hear me.


I'm a big Rory fan, he's easily my favorite current player. Professional athletes don't think the way we do, we overestimate the effects that losses, slumps, and mistakes have on them. They've just got a different mindset. But at some point you have to wonder if this gets to him. Of course, at age 35 he's only one year older than Mickelson was when Mickelson won his first major so it's not like he doesn't have time to win several more if he's motivated. But man that was a tough one yesterday.


When Bryson was in that bunker though, I told my son that if Rory loses everyone will focus on the putts but if Bryson can get this ball up and down from this position he will have full out earned the win. What a huge clutch save. 6 was more likely than 4 from there.

[Tommy Williamsen]

The heartbreak that has been on my mind was Lexi in the Open at Olympic. Now, she is retiring at a tender age. She lost a playoff yesterday. I was rooting for her.

[JLahrman]

The heartbreak that has been on my mind was Lexi in the Open at Olympic. Now, she is retiring at a tender age. She lost a playoff yesterday. I was rooting for her.

I was too, that tournament was happening right here in Grand Rapids where I live. I went to it last year but couldn't get there this year. I was hoping she won but didn't work out for her.