Farmingdale, New York | Each orchestra needs a conductor, every package needs an alpha wolf. At Bethpage, Black Europe needs a leader and it has one. His name is Rory Mcilroy. Although he may not always have mounted this role, he has since been so smoothly overtaken as if it was made a favorite jacket of Irish tweed.
McIlroy is the leader of the team. There are not two ways about that. He knows. We know. The American team knows and he knows they know. “I have always said that I am proud of my individual achievements in the game,” said McIlroy, “but the most memorable moments and the nicest I had in my career have been on a Ryder Cup. I think … another way would win Ryder Cup … would certainly be one of the greatest achievements of my career.”
McIlroy was one of the 37 Europeans who won a Ryder Cup in the US and could be seen in a Slim Europe team -motivating video. Called “Our time, our place”, It caused a stir when it was launched on social media on Tuesday.
The leader of a team gives wisdom to debutants, talks to his team and sets the tone of the team, whether it is muted, modest or bravura. McIlroy is the chirper of Europe, with a quote for every occasion and often a somewhat combative.
This McIlroy, which is so involved in the biennial league, so passionate, is far from the young man who once described it as an exhibition. “It’s not like I didn’t feel something when I looked Ryder Cups,” said McIlroy. “I cried when America won in Brookline [in 1999]. But when I came to the team room [for the Ryder Cup] At Celtic Manor in 2010 I saw how much it meant for everyone.
‘Seve was sick [in Spain and would die the following May] And [one night] We had him at the Call conference in the team room. … I look around and I see that the majority of the team is crying while Seve talks to us. I have something like that: ‘That’s it. That is the embodiment of what the European Ryder Cup team is. ” ‘
Justin Rose, the oldest man in the Europe team at the age of 45, has a theory why 36-year-old McIlroy has settled so well in this role. “I think Rory feels very comfortable with himself,” said Rose. “I think he has thick skin. I think he can handle the recoil when he says something he believes, but it is not taken in the right way. I think he is happy to see it and call it how he sees it. I think he has the freedom on the golf course to just roll with that.”
“He is clearly of an incredibly good player for a great Ryder Cup player who is now … The cornerstone that Team Europe needs,” said Jon Rahm. “It’s special to have him in the neighborhood. He is a great superstar. He is the best player we have in Europe and absolutely the biggest presence. That is now his role.”
The leader can be the best player of the team and is perhaps or not the noisy, the jokester, the storyteller. But he is not the heartbeat.
The heartbeat is the man for whom everyone collects, the man whose personality is such that others are inspired by it. The Rahm of Spain is the heartbeat of this Europe team, just like the late Seve Ballesteros and José María Olazábal, his countrymen, were Ryder Cups in the past.
You know that guy. We all know that guy. He is perhaps the most popular non-American on the PGA Tour.
Timothy Gay, the American author, knows that McIlroy and his family are better than most of them have written a book entitled ‘Rory Land’ about the curly Charmer of Northern Ireland. On almost 450 pages, including 12 pages of recognition of its sources, “Rory Land” is the most thorough and longest written about McIlroy.
“McIlroy,” writes Gay “… has been the ruler of his own country for years, a loan that I have called ‘Rory Land’. Rory Land does not belong to Ire-Land of England or USA country.
He describes McIlroy as a “… Six -time winner from the race to Dubai, triple conqueror of the Fedex Cup … Every Mama’s favorite … Ryder Cup Wrangler, one -time tabloid Romeo, Media Lieverd, Lightning way Over analyzed, deeply human, immensely sympathetic superstar who supposedly spits a billion Saudi dollar, and because of his own recognition, the ‘sacrificial lamb’ of the Liv Golf Fiasco of the Tours … you know that guy. “
Gay is right. You Doing Know that guy. We all Know that guy. He is perhaps the most popular non-American on the PGA Tour. The world of Golf stood up as one and applauded him in April when he triumphed the Masters and thus joined the five men who won Golf’s career Grand Slam.
McIlroy was praised where he went to Bethpage earlier this week. “RO-WIJ, RO-WIJ,” Shouted spectators, benefited from the rhythmic two-letter grip Beat of his first name in almost the same way as they screamed “Ti-r, Ti-r” to Woods and “Seve, Seve” in Ballesteros. But in a taste of what McIlroy is waiting this weekend, his name was somewhat booed when it was announced during the opening ceremony.
McIlroy, the leader, might have made a secret of Europe sliding earlier this month when he revealed that he and his teammates had received Virtual Reality heads in practice to simulate what could be shouted at Bethpage. “They have abused there for us, because that is the stuff that we are dealing with,” said McIlroy. “So it is better to try to give yourself as much dedensitization as possible before you enter.
“They said,” How far do you want us to go with the abuse? ” And I said, “Go as far as you want.
Last January McIlroy said that his three goals were for the rest of his career “winning the masters, winning an Olympic medal and another way Ryder Cup.” He won a Masters title five months ago and will have to wait until 2028 to win an Olympic medal, but on a muscular course set up for attacking the game to deliver Birdies in New York this week, he has the opportunity to achieve the third of his goals.
On Friday, McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood will be confronted with Collin Morikawa and Harris English In the fourthomes of the opening morning.
McIlroy is clearly enjoying the fight, licks his pork chops at the prospect, regardless of who he is confronted. At Whistling Straits in 2021 he shouted in embarrassment for his performance after Europe had lost the Ryder Cup. Will he cry again on Sunday?
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