Tour de Force of Rory Mcilroy in US Open 2011 “broke” a big champion 3 times.
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Padraig Harrington was one of the best players in the world in the late 200th and early 2010s.
The Irish won three diplomas in a two-year period, going back to the 2007 and 2008 open championship while also chose the 2008 PGA Championship. Open 2011 in Congresses with uninterrupted confidence that he was the best player on the planet and would soon bring home championship no. 4.
But Rory Mcilroy then-24-year-old had different plans. The growing star of northern Ireland broke out the field that week in Congress, ending at 16th, while he fired the lowest 72-year (268) score in open US history.
Mcilroy’s performance Harrington I destroyedtearing his view of where he stayed in the professional ranks.
“Where he broke, Rory broke me in 2011,” Harrington said in The last golf episode of the cookie jar Podcast. “(He) broke everyone, but I was the best player. That’s what I believed. So I went to Congress. I played a round of practice with Adam Scott on Wednesday. He went inside and did an interview and told everyone to go home, ‘You can also go home. Won three degrees only recently.
“I get into this tournament and Rory does something that I can’t compete with. Wipe the floor. Like we all are alike. He just blushed us all far away. But that’s okay if I thought it could I was better off. Great, and has happened – name every player who hit a peak – in 2008, I was not looking at the shoulder. I have to be a better version for me in order to compete with Rory. “
Harrington ended in a tie for 45 that week in Congress, after Mcilroy bulldozoi field for his first major title.
The Irish fought in the two remaining diplomas of the 2011 season, but scored Top-10 in both Masters 2012 and 2012 US Open. After the US Open 2012, Harrington would not register a Top-10 in a major to the PGA 2021 championship on the island of Kiawah.
