Rory - Major Breakthrough


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Another US Open champion from Northern Ireland. Rory McIlroy

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announces himself to the world. Just turned 22, he winds one of

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golf's biggest tournaments to become a major champion. Two months

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earlier, it had all been so different. When I switch the TV off,

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I felt so much for him. Leading the US Masters, he self-destructed.

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This is the story of Rory's redemption. Of how he recovered

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from his greatest disappointment. think Rory McIlroy has that kind of

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talent and likeability that could make him a real icon. To prove the

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doubters wrong and make his major Our journey with Rory McIlroy start

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at the turn of the Year at his home on the outskirts of Belfast. The

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21-year-old is ranked the seventh best golfer in the world and

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success has already brought him a dream lifestyle. Very fortunate to

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play again that I'd love and played for a living. The rewards are quite

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nice if you played well. I spend the money on this house, and on

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cars. That is great be able to afford the cars I drive at the

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moment. I have a great house here. I think I was at nine or 10 when I

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first came to view it! I saw that it had little bit of land and I

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knew that I really wanted put my own practice facility somewhere.

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That will be finished in a month or two. Rory also has his own purpose

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built gym and he has decided to spend more time in here to help

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take his game to the next level. really made an effort this year to

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try and work as hard as I can. Golf sometimes in the past felt like it

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just came easy to meat and sometimes it can not be a good

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thing because inmates you a little bit complacent. You think you do

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not have to practise first heart, but be better than everyone else

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you have to do everything better than them. I have realised you

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cannot achieve success without putting do working. If I can do

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with that extra 5% it could make the difference between having a

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good year and a great one. Rory has already won two tournaments as a

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professional. Some of golf's biggest names have taken the

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trouble to write to the young man from County Down. Flight this could,

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his career is moving in the right direction, but his first major

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remains out of reach -- life is good. There have been great chances

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for me that I have not got hold of. I don't know if that is because of

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experience or because I am still quite young. Maybe just need to be

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able to mature a bit to know what to do in certain situations. It has

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been a very short career so far. I have hopefully another 20 of 25

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years at it. His professional career is in its infancy but his

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love of the game is as old as he is. Rory McIlroy was born to play golf.

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He had a club in his hand from the age of two. And when he was nine-

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year-old he went to Florida and won a world championship. His parents,

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Gerry and racy, encouraged and supported their only child every

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step of the way -- Rosie. They worked so hard and gave up

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everything for me to play golf around the world as a junior. Dad

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at one stage was working three jobs. Mom worked night shifts at a

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factory and every penny they had went into me. When you're younger

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you just think you're playing golf and it is all great but when you

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get a bit older and to work how hard it they work for you, you do

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appreciate it. A player everything to them. -- I owe everything to him.

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They even build a practice area up there home. At the age of 17 he was

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the best amateur in the world. And by his side during his teenage

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years was his girlfriend, holy. were up at the golf club and I've

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was the caddy with a couple of the girls. He came and said hello and

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that was how it started. I didn't know who was at that stage. A but

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at the start of this year, Rory takes the decision to end their

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relationship to focus on his career. I am away quite a lot soak do not

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have any time for girlfriends or anything like that. I am 100%

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concentrating on golf. Maybe one day, five years time, we might

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decide to get back together. We might end up going our separate

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ways. We ended our relationship on very good terms and still speak all

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the time. He it is always going to be tough to take a break from each

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other but we both needed to do our own things. Are needed to step it

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up with university and he needed to do his thing with golf. I felt like

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sometimes I was not as dedicated as I should be. But that was nothing

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to do with her, that was me thinking that you do not need to

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practise today, you are OK. If you want to try and become better than

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everyone else you need to get up earlier than they do and practice

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more than they do and basically work harder than them. That is the

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for loss of I have taken into this year. It is a fully focused and

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fitter at Rory that arise at the first major of the year. The US

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Masters, played at probably the most famous golf course in the

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world. The exclusive Augusta National in Georgia. There is no

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side quite like Augusta National in the spring time by -- no site.

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is one of a posse of young offenders including his friend and

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US Jo pin champion, Graeme McDowell. They are out to fill the void

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caused by the downfall of Tiger Woods. Rory tries to emerge from

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the pack and he seeks the advice of the game's greatest ever player.

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Six-times Masters champion, Jack Nicklaus. My first encounter with

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Rory was I was in a shopping centre and I saw this mop of hair. I said

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I think that is that young McCann right boy. -- at that young Rory

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McIlroy. He was going to go and talk to a sports psychologist and I

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said they never won anything. So we sat down and had lunch. He asked me

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a bunch of questions and I told him what I didn't how prepared for golf

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tournaments. He was a very pleasant young man. He took in what I was

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saying. He was interested in learning and I like that in young

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people. Well we get off to a flying start and takes the lead on the

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opening day. -- Rory gets off to a flying start. He played some mere

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flawless golf. A wonderful little chip there. On the second day, he

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continues to impress. Oh, yes! the Saturday, Augusta and the world

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of golf is in awe. At the end of the day, he is a remarkable four

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shots clear of the chasing pack. They are all going after Rory

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McIlroy. It could be the beginning of a new era in golf. Who knows?

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the sun sets on Augusta, little does he know what lies ahead. Rory

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a rise for the final round with this huge weight of expectation on

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his shoulders. But can he handle the pressure. He has played back

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magnificently well, what an ambassador for Ireland. I am so

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thrilled that I pick him before the tournament started. I believe, and

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I know he has a new one two tournaments, I would believe that

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he is very close to being the best player in the world today. But from

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before he tees off, things don't feel right for Rory. I did not feel

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more nervous, I felt more focused, off tunnel vision or whatever you

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want to call it, and I think it worked against me. It wasn't my

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normal characteristics on the golf course. I maybe just wanted it a

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little too badly. I hadn't felt like that all week and I knew I was

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going to feel like that all day and would have to handle that. And his

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problems start early in the round. Despite a difficult first nine

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holes... For I found it up but I was managing to deal with it.

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manages to hold on to a slender lead. But that the 10th hole it all

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starts to unravel. I was in a pretty good frame of mind going on

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to the tee. The tee shot came out of nowhere. Is that out of bounds?

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It somehow managed to find itself the stuck between two cabins. It

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was really the fourth shots that killed me. He caught a limb of the

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trees. I got a bit flustered after that. My heart started to race a

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bit and it became a blur. honestly believed, even after the

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12 hole, that I still had a chance to win. I thought if I could birdie

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my way in I still had a chance. That is what I was trying to do.

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finds the trivia tree of the creek and he will have great difficulty

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controlling his emotions from here. Once that tee shot went into the

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water that was when I've realised that was my race run. That was when

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I realised I was not going to win and there was tough to take.

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finishes his round and, despite everything, gets a standing ovation

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at the final hole. Rory needs to fly very quickly to Northern

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Ireland and I'm sure his whole country will give him a big hug.

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has been a very public collapse but he puts on a brave face and remains

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his dignity throughout. I almost felt embarrassed that I was getting

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such a good reaction from the crowd and they were so supportive. It was

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nice to get that ovation. It was definitely appreciated. I do not

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know if I was numb or even shock or what, there were so many emotions.

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It would have been very easy just assault cannot speak to the press

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and go and feel sorry for myself. But I was honest, I said it was one

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of the toughest days I have ever had but I will live on from it, I

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am fine. And waiting to console him, a surprise visitor. I just remember

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been so proud of him. He carried himself so well coming off the 18th.

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He still managed to hold himself in front of that amount of press and

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carried himself really well and kept his head up. It was nice to

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see her there, to give her a hug and everything. I said sorry that

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she wasted her time coming over. It made Sunday-night a lot easier,

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having somebody there that you really know, to talk to. I don't

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want my popularity to have risen for the wrong reasons of people

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feeling sorry for me. Of course he was heartbroken. But that

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heartbreak made him stronger. Augusta, Rory comes home to

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Northern Ireland. He analyses what has happened but refuses to dwell

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on it. Plenty of other people have had their say and expressed their

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fears that he does not have the mental toughness to close out a

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major. But he prefers to get on with his life, watching his beloved

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Manchester United win the Premier League. His thoughts are already

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turning to the next major and he is also preparing himself for a

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different challenge that will put different challenge that will put

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The island of Haiti have been devastated by an earthquake that

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killed thousands. Just a week before the US Open, Rory McIlory

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flies there as Unicef ambassador. It was tough to see some of the

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things they have to go through and the conditions that people are

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still living in there. It was great to see them singing songs and I

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played football with a few of them. It's great to see kids have still

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have a great attitude towards life. It gave me a huge sense of respect

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on life and it makes me see that golf isn't such an important thing,

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or as important as I make it out to be sometimes. The next time I am

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struggling on the golf course, I have to think about the people of

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Haiti and I won't change my mind set pretty quickly. -- I will

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And so to the American capital and the US Open, renowned as golf's

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toughest major. Graeme McDowell is back to defend his title. The eyes

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of the world are also on Rory McIlory. He arrives in a positive

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frame of mind after again seeking the advice of the great Jack

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Nicklaus. The thing that I really focused on that he said to me was,

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I'm expecting big things from you. When Jack Nicklaus says that to you,

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he's been around the team for so long, he must really think I've got

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something. I said, did you learn anything in Augusta? He says, I

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learned a lot about myself and the things I shouldn't do that I need

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to do. I said, if you learn from that, that's great because the next

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time you get in a position, it will be fallible. I took that away and I

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thought, he's right, I had better go and produce now. And produce, he

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does. He almost pulled a muscle in his neck! It's even a step up in

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level from his outstanding play at the Masters. Some of the best golf

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I have ever played. It seems incredibly easy, which it obviously

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is not. During the first three rounds, he breaks record after

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record after record. Saturday was probably the most nervous I was

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during the tournament because I felt that if I could handle

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Saturday, I was going to be able to handle Sunday. There's a little of

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that attitude! Yes, that's nice! takes an incredible eight shot lead

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into the last day. I didn't watch any golf on TV, read newspapers, go

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on Twitter, it didn't do anything. I have learned over the last few

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months, there is no point in the hearing it. I was oblivious to what

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people were saying. It Boyle's Law and to this day. From the very

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first hole, he is looking good. That is incredible! By the 10th

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hole, where it all had gone round the last time, things couldn't be

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more different. I had to think about a Costa because I had to sink,

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this is what I did there, and this is what I'm going to do here. The

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crowd on that 10th hole, they were incredible and just the energy that

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I felt, I knew that I need to play solid from here. To play that 10th

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hole the way I did on Sunday, that gave me a lot conference. How good

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are you! That is when I knew, I need to play solid from here. I

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haven't seen my dad all day since I started the round. I knew he would

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be somewhere on the left at the 18th and I was looking and looking

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for him. I was looking back up the fairway and I saw him there. They

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gave him a little not and that's Unreal performance from Rory

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McIlory, the 2011 United States Open champion! Rory Windsor by the

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lowest ever score in the history of the tournament. Happy Father's Day!

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We were fine, we did not cry but... I've been working towards it for a

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long time. He has supported me all the way so to have him there was

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like a dream come true. He's the best player I have ever seen. His

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name going on much rougher ride after mine is special for Irish

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golf, for Northern Ireland, it is amazing and I am so proud of him.

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The headline writers in America are already making comparisons with the

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greats of the game. He has shown a level of goals that we haven't seen

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since Tiger Woods in his prime and that is captivating everyone. We

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knew he had tremendous talent and putting it together in a major

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championship is the final step. He is doing it and I think we're on to

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something really special now in the next 10 years as well. It's unfair

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to both Tiger Woods and Roy McIlory to talk about them in the same

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paragraph but the fact is, where ready for a champion who doesn't

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like act like the whole world is his platoon, he has a touch of

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I think our nightmare is over and this very is the best player in the

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world, he is huge. Everywhere in the world because just the look of

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him. He is the all-time baby-faced athlete. With the model of Tiger

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Woods's been the number one athlete in the world at his peak, I think

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is possible Rory McIlory will be. I think he has that kind of talent

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and that likeability that could make him a real icon. He was

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probably one of the most satisfying things to win. To hear what people

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said, to go out and prove a lot of people wrong, that gave me a great

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sense of satisfaction. It wasn't as if I was going out to prove people

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wrong, but it was just nice to play that some of golf and be able to

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His first morning as a major champion. It's an early start. As

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the papers arrived, he's already in the hotel foyer with his dad.

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Remember Darren Clarke ringing me at 5am in the morning to say well

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done and I haven't even been to bed! I was catching a flight to

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Cape Cod. Rory has promised to play in a golf day organised by one of

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his sponsors. Seeing the picture of me and my dad embracing each other,

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it was just fantastic. It's something we will never forget.

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Sorry, would you sign my flag for me? You so gracious, you done a

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With the US Open trophy safely packed, he sets off with his stare

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at -- he sets off with his dad and I am absolutely knackered. Monday

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was a long day for me but I had a commitment to go to one of my

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sponsors and I couldn't, just because I had won the day before, I

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This is the first time in a week that I have picked up a paper and

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see my face on every paper I picked As the others digest the headlines,

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An hour later, the bleary eyed champion emerges into the early

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A little tired but I'm all right. Not too bad. Ian Humphreys

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congratulated me. My name his team and if you guys need anything along

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the way, just let me know. Perfect, thank you. I had better speak to

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mum, I haven't spoken to her yet. Well I try and bring the house

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again? Hello! I'm all right, how are you? Sorry I didn't get to

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speak to you last night. It's still hasn't sunk in. It was nice, the

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last couple of holes, I could actually enjoy it. It's all good, a

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major champion! It's with us, you can have a look at it, it's in a

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big case. See you later! Great form? I said to her last night,

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what are you crying for? She said, tears of joy! I think she watched

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the golf on her own at home with no one around her. Great to speak to

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mum and mum and dad have done everything for me so I'm sure they

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are obviously over the moon and hopefully this isn't the last one

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for them. A he has not been to bed I need to share something with you,

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you might laugh but it's serious. On Friday, they went to work and I

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had a lot of meetings and I was watching you on my computer online.

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This all these shots and I cried. On Friday? On Friday! Those terms

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of emotions, you get them when your head is in the sky, it was that. It

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When you make a commitment like that you have the hollow ret. I

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didn't think twice about it. -- you have to one let it. -- honour. This

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happened to the previous winner. There we go! Got it? Back in

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Northern Ireland for two years in a row. It is huge. Thank you very

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much. This looks so good, exactly what we needed. It is incredible,

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obviously, the day after the Open championship, especially being a

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young person, it makes it come together so beautifully. We have

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gone through an era where one at lead, Tiger Woods, did a great job

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and it is the changing of the card. To have a young person, not someone

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in the middle of they pack, the Masters was something incredible.

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The fact that he lost it and it got away from him and then coming back

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from winning the US Open, I think makes it even better. It was great

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I played with a couple of young kids there. Thank you very much. I

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enjoyed it. Nice to me due. It was great at the trait do with me so

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that everyone could have a picture with it. -- to have the trophy with

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me. It was not the look worse way to spend a day after winning your

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first major. There you go, no problem. So you played against

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Northern Ireland? He played against Rangers... Lafferty as well and

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Steve Davis. They you are, perfect. It is very good! Cool. It is

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exceptional because he would have a million reasons not to show up

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today and everyone would say it is normal. The fact that even though

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he would have had those reasons he is still showing up, it is big, it

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is respectful, it is who he is as a person. With the party in full

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swing, Rory and Gerry take some time out by themselves. That was a

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nice moment when me and Dad could cope in the locker room and watch a

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bit of tennis. It was the first real couple of hours but I had to

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myself, just having my dad with me and chilling out and thinking about

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what had happened. I thought, growing up, 12, 13, 14, he was good.

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But it did nothing you would have happened as quick. I thought maybe

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25, 26. To be honest, it is any sinking in now. All the records

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that he broke and what he has done. It is fantastic for him, for me and

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his mother. As we Rory be joined the guests, preparations are under

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way for his journey to Boston airport. I'm calling from the

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sheriff's office. While be coming up with Rory McIlroy. We are the

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and believing in approximately 15 minutes from Cape Cod so it will be

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about 7pm that we get there. Happy major to you! Happy major to you!

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Happy Bajan, dear Rory, happy major to you! Obviously, he is a good

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player but it takes a lot more than being a good player to bounce back

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the way that he did. It is a very special performance and I'm sure it

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will stick in the mind of a lot of people for a long time to. Rory,

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when he did not close at the Masters, at the Americans really

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feel for people that fall down and get back up and keep fighting away

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and trying to regain that winning attitude. He honestly had it and

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proved it this week. By that stage, I was just looking forward to

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getting home. We met a very nice police man from Ireland who now

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lives in Cape Cod and organise the police escort to the airport for us.

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He ended up taking me in his car. They it is not often that we get to

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take a fellow Irishman and I am looking forward to taking him to

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the airport, give him an escort all the way up so that he can get

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through. It will be a nice smooth ride all the way up. Great to be

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able to move all the traffic out of the way and get to the airport

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quick enough and then turn up to the airport and have the state

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troopers waiting there, or escorting us into the terminal. Get

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injecting and through the security, it was incredible. Definitely a

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nice way to get through an airport more quickly! Thanks very much. A

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last thing I wanted to do was wait ing Hopper now lie as security.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds

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That was nice of them to do that Good night. We just need to

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boarding pass. Finally back in the UK, Rory and his dad go their

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separate ways. Good seeing you again. Absolutely. Gerry is heading

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home to Belfast but Rory has got TV commitments. At the airport he gets

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the first taste of how his fame has rocketed. I didn't realise the

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amount of attention I was going to get. The people at Heathrow did a

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fantastic job in getting us from the playing through immigration,

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getting our bags, and straight out of there. I more right, a little

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tired, but nice to get a bit of sleep. Just got another bit to do

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and then I am home. Looking for to that, good to see everyone. --

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Oh deer. The message is that been the most to me are the ones from

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back home, close friends and family and everything like that. But to

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get messages of support from the likes of Rafael Nadal and Wayne

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Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Andy Murray, Jack Nicklaus, it is really nice.

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It is a bit overwhelming in a way. But it is nice that people saw what

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happened a couple of months ago and saw me do what they did at the US

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open to make up for it. Rory is off to record again showed before the

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last leg of his journey to Northern Ireland. -- record a game show.

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There is no rest for his manager, Stewart. But for Rory, time for

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There is just one more short flight and Rory will be home. Hazard

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slowly but surely sunk in that you are a major champion? No, I still

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get goose bumps and I hear it. It will take me a while. The need to

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reflect on it back home, and by myself. The don't feel as if I have

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had any time to myself yet to really think about what I have done.

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It will be nice just to sit at home and think about everything and

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think about going forward as well. The Open Championship is coming up

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in four weeks and one to give myself the best chance to win that

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as well. Let us get it back where it belongs for the second year in a

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There are some serious names any get to that era. Yes. Even before I

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won the US Open I felt like you put yourself out there in the spot

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light and you have to present yourself in the right way. For the

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most part, I have been able to do that. A lot of that has to do with

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how I was raised and how my mum and dad brought me up. People are going

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to watch what you do and you have to be respectful and just do the

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simple things right. Have good manners and just be a decent person.

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If you can do that it can get to a long way, which I have learned

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recently. I don't want it just to be this, I want to keep going. That

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is what I tell people, this is great, first major, the US Open,

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but I need to push on. I understand that. Hopefully it won't be the

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last. I want to put pressure on myself to do well. That is

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something that Jack Nicklaus told me, he always put pressure on

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himself to be up there. If I want to bring more of these things I

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have to keep that pressure. People are going to make comparisons and

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I'd try to play them down as much as I can. I don't want to say this

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to be disrespectful in any way but it is only one. A lot of great

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players have won one of two major championships. But I amateur stage

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in my career where, I feel, to get the first on so early is fantastic

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and I need to keep working hard and keep preparing well for each and

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every tournament to give myself great chances to win. Belfast.

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Harry's house. I was coming into land at Belfast and almost felt

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nervous, getting home. I'm always so excited to get home, cannot wait

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to get home. See the family, see the docks and take it easy. But

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there is a sense of anticipation for what was to come. Hi, how are

:43:41.:43:47.

you? It is nice to get out of the plane and then just getting the car

:43:47.:43:57.
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know that you're on your way home It is nice to be home. It doesn't

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really matter what the weather is Hello boys! Hello, hello! It was

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great to get home and walking through the front door with the US

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Open and seeing my mum come in through the kitchen. I love you and

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I'm so proud of you! That hug from my mum, I'll never forget that

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because it was great to see her for the first time in a wine and to

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come home with that trophy, it was incredible. Hello you! It was just

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a unique experience, you only when you first major once and for him to

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come and carrying the trophy and for his mum and dad there, ready to

:45:43.:45:53.
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greet him, it was spectacular. is a good boy? I think there had

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been away for four or five weeks. I haven't seen my mum or dad, or

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holly or the dogs. Just to get home, it was almost like, my shoulders

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just went down, it was so nice just to get home. It was great to spend

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time with them in this house, have a quiet dinner and chat about

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things, it was great. The next morning, Holywood Golf Club is

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preparing to welcome home its hero. We're completely packed up here.

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Are we still getting members coming up? A little more fresh this

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Well, trophy! Do you know where it I don't think I've ever been

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nervous going to Hollywood golf- club on all my life. This feels

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different, it could be crazy. It will be good to get back to

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Hollywood, good to see everyone. To see a few of my mates. And looking

:47:51.:47:58.

forward to it but it will be a bit hectic, I'd say. And nice banner up

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there. Well, yes. Unbelievable! How it a golf tournament can create so

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MUSIC. I was saying, it's behind me, I

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Do you want to hold it? Not on your own! I have to hold it as well.

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It's great to see so many people here. All the support I get from

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back home this fantastic. It's great and I'm really glad to be

:49:13.:49:23.
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Rory McIlory! To bring this back home, not just

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for myself, for the people of Holywood and Northern Ireland... It

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makes me very proud to be from here and this is great for me but this

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one is just as much for everybody This stuff doesn't happen to people.

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From what happened in a Costa. Spending two months and working

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hard and learning a lot of things, going straight to the next major

:50:27.:50:32.

and to win it like I did, it is something like you would see in a

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After a whirlwind few days, it's time for Rory to take stock and

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reflect at home with holly. Their relationship is now firmly back on.

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He is still the same gag, not one that took him has changed. You have

:51:29.:51:37.

to keep him grounded and say, we just done what we've always done,

:51:37.:51:40.

gone to the cinema gone to Tesco's. Being a champion doesn't come into

:51:40.:51:49.

it when he's at home. I have known her for nearly six years. For a 22

:51:49.:51:53.

year-old, it's a big part of my life and at the start of the year,

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I thought I wanted to focus on my game and I wanted to take a break

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but I realised pretty quickly that I had made a mistake. I had to do

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quite a lot of begging and grovelling to get her back! She has

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been fantastic, she definitely keeps my feet on the ground. She

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knows me better than anyone, I have spent so much time with her. She

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knows that things to say to me, she has been a great support and it is

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great to get home and see her. It is great to spend time with her, it

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takes my mind of everything else that is going on. After several

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high-profile appearances and public engagements, there's a chance for a

:52:53.:52:57.

Rory McIlory to connect with his roots, as he visits his old school

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in Hollywood. This is incredible, incredible! Sometimes it hits you,

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it is just unbelievable. You've just got to live your life the way

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you always did, the way you always do. Take it one day at a time. I

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know there's going to be a lot more attention on me but it's part of

:53:45.:53:51.

what I do now and I just had to deal with it. I really enjoyed it,

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it was brilliant, fantastic. I didn't think a few years ago, I

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would do something like that with teachers asking for autographs at

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its ties, a great feeling to be But almost inevitably, it's not

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long before Rory's thoughts turn once again to golf. Impressive

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practice range at his home is now finished. Time to look ahead. And

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said his future goals. I knew that when I went home and went to

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practise and find a lot of people coming up to me, I wasn't getting

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the work done I want it. To be able to build something like this, it's

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an investment in the future and some said it built, I just won my

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first major so it has paid for itself already. It has been great

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for me to come and practice, even for an hour, however tiny you want.

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Don't have to put on a normal golf stuff, just come and practice.

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have you got as facilities? Four greens, for tea boxes, three

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different types of Sanz. I have links Steyne rough, US Open Steyne

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rough, everything I encounter when I might playing? What is the upkeep

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like? I have one full-time green keeper and I have a part-time

:55:48.:55:53.

greenkeeper as well. Those boys are in every day and they have today,

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it is kept like The Championship style of golf course. To build a

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facility like this, very much means you are making a long-term

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commitment to living here in Northern Ireland? Of course, I see

:56:06.:56:12.

myself always as being based here. To have something like this, it

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would be a shame to move away and not have it. I couldn't do this

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anywhere else. I found this probably a couple of years ago with

:56:20.:56:23.

this amount of land and I knew I wanted to do something pretty

:56:23.:56:28.

special with that and it has turned out great. You have a bunker here

:56:28.:56:36.

like St Andrews? Yes, I got sand from Portrush for it. I think I

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I said, the rough is going to be hard. This is one it was like last

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week. They grew that especially for you? Yes, I can't ring up and ask

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what speed the greens are going to be. They can say, around 10.5. I

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can ask for my greens to be 10.5 so I can prepare. I feel that I could

:57:21.:57:24.

have a good chance to win more majors, whether it gets into the

:57:25.:57:32.

double digits, I don't know, but I have won my first one and I'm one I

:57:32.:57:38.

first one when Jack won his. Tiger at 21 but that is what it has given

:57:38.:57:47.

me, belief in my own ability, belief in how I can handle certain

:57:47.:57:53.

situations, belief that I can go out and win a major by eight shots.

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Before I won the US Open, I had all the money I ever wanted, it is not

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a motivating factor for me. Especially after winning a major, I

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