It’s frankly not a fair fight.
Rory McIlroy has been getting
advice on how to grind his ri-
vals into the ground from Man-
chester United’s greatest ever
manager, Sir Alex Ferguson,
and golf’s greatest ever, Lord
Jack Nicklaus. Ferguson told
McIlroy after his Masters melt-
down to go home to the people
he loved, listen only to them
and not to read any newspa-
pers. McIlroy won’t mind buy-
ing up all the newspapers on
Sunday. Nicklaus said he was
gonna kick his butt.
“He didn’t really threaten
to beat me up,” McIlroy said.
“But I think I could take him
now; he’s a little old,” he added
laughing. McIlroy has been
booting up for a little of his
own butt kicking. An eight-shot
lead? Just one word, said his
red-raw bottomed pal Graeme
McDowell: “Wow!” Okay, he
had a few more words, too. “I’m
gonna walk off that 18th green
tomorrow, grab a beer and
watch the wee man do it. He
has the potential to be the
next Tiger Woods.”
The fans are loving McIl-
roy. They are ready to follow a
new hero. One that smiles and
waves and hands balls to kids.
One that plays like Tiger used
to. They will line the fairways
to salute him. Surely, he can’t
lose from here. “If you are
going to talk about someone
challenging Jack’s record,
there’s your man,” said
Padraig Harrington looking at
the top of the leaderboard. Jack
would be delighted. Tiger who?
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