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Another US Open champion from Northern Ireland. Rory McIlroy | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
announces himself to the world. Just turned 22, he winds one of | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
golf's biggest tournaments to become a major champion. Two months | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
earlier, it had all been so different. When I switch the TV off, | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
I felt so much for him. Leading the US Masters, he self-destructed. | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
This is the story of Rory's redemption. Of how he recovered | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
from his greatest disappointment. think Rory McIlroy has that kind of | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
talent and likeability that could make him a real icon. To prove the | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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doubters wrong and make his major Our journey with Rory McIlroy start | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
at the turn of the Year at his home on the outskirts of Belfast. The | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
21-year-old is ranked the seventh best golfer in the world and | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
success has already brought him a dream lifestyle. Very fortunate to | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
play again that I'd love and played for a living. The rewards are quite | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
nice if you played well. I spend the money on this house, and on | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
cars. That is great be able to afford the cars I drive at the | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
moment. I have a great house here. I think I was at nine or 10 when I | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
first came to view it! I saw that it had little bit of land and I | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
knew that I really wanted put my own practice facility somewhere. | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
That will be finished in a month or two. Rory also has his own purpose | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
built gym and he has decided to spend more time in here to help | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
take his game to the next level. really made an effort this year to | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
try and work as hard as I can. Golf sometimes in the past felt like it | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
just came easy to meat and sometimes it can not be a good | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
thing because inmates you a little bit complacent. You think you do | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
not have to practise first heart, but be better than everyone else | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
you have to do everything better than them. I have realised you | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
cannot achieve success without putting do working. If I can do | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
with that extra 5% it could make the difference between having a | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
good year and a great one. Rory has already won two tournaments as a | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
professional. Some of golf's biggest names have taken the | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
trouble to write to the young man from County Down. Flight this could, | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
his career is moving in the right direction, but his first major | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
remains out of reach -- life is good. There have been great chances | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
for me that I have not got hold of. I don't know if that is because of | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
experience or because I am still quite young. Maybe just need to be | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
able to mature a bit to know what to do in certain situations. It has | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
been a very short career so far. I have hopefully another 20 of 25 | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
years at it. His professional career is in its infancy but his | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
love of the game is as old as he is. Rory McIlroy was born to play golf. | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
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He had a club in his hand from the age of two. And when he was nine- | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
year-old he went to Florida and won a world championship. His parents, | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Gerry and racy, encouraged and supported their only child every | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
step of the way -- Rosie. They worked so hard and gave up | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
everything for me to play golf around the world as a junior. Dad | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
at one stage was working three jobs. Mom worked night shifts at a | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
factory and every penny they had went into me. When you're younger | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
you just think you're playing golf and it is all great but when you | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
get a bit older and to work how hard it they work for you, you do | :04:43. | :04:53. | |
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appreciate it. A player everything to them. -- I owe everything to him. | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
They even build a practice area up there home. At the age of 17 he was | :05:02. | :05:12. | |
the best amateur in the world. And by his side during his teenage | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
years was his girlfriend, holy. were up at the golf club and I've | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
was the caddy with a couple of the girls. He came and said hello and | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
that was how it started. I didn't know who was at that stage. A but | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
at the start of this year, Rory takes the decision to end their | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
relationship to focus on his career. I am away quite a lot soak do not | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
have any time for girlfriends or anything like that. I am 100% | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
concentrating on golf. Maybe one day, five years time, we might | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
decide to get back together. We might end up going our separate | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
ways. We ended our relationship on very good terms and still speak all | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
the time. He it is always going to be tough to take a break from each | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
other but we both needed to do our own things. Are needed to step it | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
up with university and he needed to do his thing with golf. I felt like | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
sometimes I was not as dedicated as I should be. But that was nothing | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
to do with her, that was me thinking that you do not need to | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
practise today, you are OK. If you want to try and become better than | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
everyone else you need to get up earlier than they do and practice | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
more than they do and basically work harder than them. That is the | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
for loss of I have taken into this year. It is a fully focused and | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
fitter at Rory that arise at the first major of the year. The US | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
Masters, played at probably the most famous golf course in the | :07:03. | :07:13. | |
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world. The exclusive Augusta National in Georgia. There is no | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
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side quite like Augusta National in the spring time by -- no site. | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
is one of a posse of young offenders including his friend and | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
US Jo pin champion, Graeme McDowell. They are out to fill the void | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
caused by the downfall of Tiger Woods. Rory tries to emerge from | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
the pack and he seeks the advice of the game's greatest ever player. | :07:55. | :08:05. | |
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Six-times Masters champion, Jack Nicklaus. My first encounter with | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
Rory was I was in a shopping centre and I saw this mop of hair. I said | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
I think that is that young McCann right boy. -- at that young Rory | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
McIlroy. He was going to go and talk to a sports psychologist and I | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
said they never won anything. So we sat down and had lunch. He asked me | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
a bunch of questions and I told him what I didn't how prepared for golf | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
tournaments. He was a very pleasant young man. He took in what I was | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
saying. He was interested in learning and I like that in young | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
people. Well we get off to a flying start and takes the lead on the | :08:50. | :09:00. | |
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opening day. -- Rory gets off to a flying start. He played some mere | :09:01. | :09:11. | |
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flawless golf. A wonderful little chip there. On the second day, he | :09:13. | :09:23. | |
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continues to impress. Oh, yes! the Saturday, Augusta and the world | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
of golf is in awe. At the end of the day, he is a remarkable four | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
shots clear of the chasing pack. They are all going after Rory | :09:37. | :09:46. | |
McIlroy. It could be the beginning of a new era in golf. Who knows? | :09:46. | :09:56. | |
the sun sets on Augusta, little does he know what lies ahead. Rory | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
a rise for the final round with this huge weight of expectation on | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
his shoulders. But can he handle the pressure. He has played back | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
magnificently well, what an ambassador for Ireland. I am so | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
thrilled that I pick him before the tournament started. I believe, and | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
I know he has a new one two tournaments, I would believe that | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
he is very close to being the best player in the world today. But from | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
before he tees off, things don't feel right for Rory. I did not feel | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
more nervous, I felt more focused, off tunnel vision or whatever you | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
want to call it, and I think it worked against me. It wasn't my | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
normal characteristics on the golf course. I maybe just wanted it a | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
little too badly. I hadn't felt like that all week and I knew I was | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
going to feel like that all day and would have to handle that. And his | :10:55. | :11:05. | |
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problems start early in the round. Despite a difficult first nine | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
holes... For I found it up but I was managing to deal with it. | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
manages to hold on to a slender lead. But that the 10th hole it all | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
starts to unravel. I was in a pretty good frame of mind going on | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
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to the tee. The tee shot came out of nowhere. Is that out of bounds? | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
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It somehow managed to find itself the stuck between two cabins. It | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
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was really the fourth shots that killed me. He caught a limb of the | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
trees. I got a bit flustered after that. My heart started to race a | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
bit and it became a blur. honestly believed, even after the | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
12 hole, that I still had a chance to win. I thought if I could birdie | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
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my way in I still had a chance. That is what I was trying to do. | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
finds the trivia tree of the creek and he will have great difficulty | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
controlling his emotions from here. Once that tee shot went into the | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
water that was when I've realised that was my race run. That was when | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
I realised I was not going to win and there was tough to take. | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
finishes his round and, despite everything, gets a standing ovation | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
at the final hole. Rory needs to fly very quickly to Northern | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
Ireland and I'm sure his whole country will give him a big hug. | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
has been a very public collapse but he puts on a brave face and remains | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
his dignity throughout. I almost felt embarrassed that I was getting | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
such a good reaction from the crowd and they were so supportive. It was | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
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nice to get that ovation. It was definitely appreciated. I do not | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
know if I was numb or even shock or what, there were so many emotions. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
It would have been very easy just assault cannot speak to the press | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
and go and feel sorry for myself. But I was honest, I said it was one | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
of the toughest days I have ever had but I will live on from it, I | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
am fine. And waiting to console him, a surprise visitor. I just remember | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
been so proud of him. He carried himself so well coming off the 18th. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
He still managed to hold himself in front of that amount of press and | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
carried himself really well and kept his head up. It was nice to | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
see her there, to give her a hug and everything. I said sorry that | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
she wasted her time coming over. It made Sunday-night a lot easier, | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
having somebody there that you really know, to talk to. I don't | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
want my popularity to have risen for the wrong reasons of people | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
feeling sorry for me. Of course he was heartbroken. But that | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
heartbreak made him stronger. Augusta, Rory comes home to | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
Northern Ireland. He analyses what has happened but refuses to dwell | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
on it. Plenty of other people have had their say and expressed their | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
fears that he does not have the mental toughness to close out a | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
major. But he prefers to get on with his life, watching his beloved | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
Manchester United win the Premier League. His thoughts are already | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
turning to the next major and he is also preparing himself for a | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
different challenge that will put different challenge that will put | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
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The island of Haiti have been devastated by an earthquake that | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
killed thousands. Just a week before the US Open, Rory McIlory | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
flies there as Unicef ambassador. It was tough to see some of the | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
things they have to go through and the conditions that people are | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
still living in there. It was great to see them singing songs and I | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
played football with a few of them. It's great to see kids have still | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
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have a great attitude towards life. It gave me a huge sense of respect | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
on life and it makes me see that golf isn't such an important thing, | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
or as important as I make it out to be sometimes. The next time I am | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
struggling on the golf course, I have to think about the people of | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
Haiti and I won't change my mind set pretty quickly. -- I will | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
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And so to the American capital and the US Open, renowned as golf's | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
toughest major. Graeme McDowell is back to defend his title. The eyes | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
of the world are also on Rory McIlory. He arrives in a positive | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
frame of mind after again seeking the advice of the great Jack | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
Nicklaus. The thing that I really focused on that he said to me was, | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
I'm expecting big things from you. When Jack Nicklaus says that to you, | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
he's been around the team for so long, he must really think I've got | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
something. I said, did you learn anything in Augusta? He says, I | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
learned a lot about myself and the things I shouldn't do that I need | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
to do. I said, if you learn from that, that's great because the next | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
time you get in a position, it will be fallible. I took that away and I | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
thought, he's right, I had better go and produce now. And produce, he | :17:46. | :17:56. | |
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does. He almost pulled a muscle in his neck! It's even a step up in | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
level from his outstanding play at the Masters. Some of the best golf | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
I have ever played. It seems incredibly easy, which it obviously | :18:08. | :18:18. | |
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is not. During the first three rounds, he breaks record after | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
record after record. Saturday was probably the most nervous I was | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
during the tournament because I felt that if I could handle | :18:33. | :18:42. | |
Saturday, I was going to be able to handle Sunday. There's a little of | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
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that attitude! Yes, that's nice! takes an incredible eight shot lead | :18:53. | :19:03. | |
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into the last day. I didn't watch any golf on TV, read newspapers, go | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
on Twitter, it didn't do anything. I have learned over the last few | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
months, there is no point in the hearing it. I was oblivious to what | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
people were saying. It Boyle's Law and to this day. From the very | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
first hole, he is looking good. That is incredible! By the 10th | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
hole, where it all had gone round the last time, things couldn't be | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
more different. I had to think about a Costa because I had to sink, | :19:36. | :19:43. | |
this is what I did there, and this is what I'm going to do here. The | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
crowd on that 10th hole, they were incredible and just the energy that | :19:47. | :19:55. | |
I felt, I knew that I need to play solid from here. To play that 10th | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
hole the way I did on Sunday, that gave me a lot conference. How good | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
are you! That is when I knew, I need to play solid from here. I | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
haven't seen my dad all day since I started the round. I knew he would | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
be somewhere on the left at the 18th and I was looking and looking | :20:18. | :20:28. | |
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for him. I was looking back up the fairway and I saw him there. They | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
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gave him a little not and that's Unreal performance from Rory | :20:51. | :20:59. | |
McIlory, the 2011 United States Open champion! Rory Windsor by the | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
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lowest ever score in the history of the tournament. Happy Father's Day! | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
We were fine, we did not cry but... I've been working towards it for a | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
long time. He has supported me all the way so to have him there was | :21:28. | :21:38. | |
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like a dream come true. He's the best player I have ever seen. His | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
name going on much rougher ride after mine is special for Irish | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
golf, for Northern Ireland, it is amazing and I am so proud of him. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
The headline writers in America are already making comparisons with the | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
greats of the game. He has shown a level of goals that we haven't seen | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
since Tiger Woods in his prime and that is captivating everyone. We | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
knew he had tremendous talent and putting it together in a major | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
championship is the final step. He is doing it and I think we're on to | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
something really special now in the next 10 years as well. It's unfair | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
to both Tiger Woods and Roy McIlory to talk about them in the same | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
paragraph but the fact is, where ready for a champion who doesn't | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
like act like the whole world is his platoon, he has a touch of | :22:36. | :22:46. | |
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I think our nightmare is over and this very is the best player in the | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
world, he is huge. Everywhere in the world because just the look of | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
him. He is the all-time baby-faced athlete. With the model of Tiger | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
Woods's been the number one athlete in the world at his peak, I think | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
is possible Rory McIlory will be. I think he has that kind of talent | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
and that likeability that could make him a real icon. He was | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
probably one of the most satisfying things to win. To hear what people | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
said, to go out and prove a lot of people wrong, that gave me a great | :23:29. | :23:38. | |
sense of satisfaction. It wasn't as if I was going out to prove people | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
wrong, but it was just nice to play that some of golf and be able to | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
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His first morning as a major champion. It's an early start. As | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
the papers arrived, he's already in the hotel foyer with his dad. | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
Remember Darren Clarke ringing me at 5am in the morning to say well | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
done and I haven't even been to bed! I was catching a flight to | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
Cape Cod. Rory has promised to play in a golf day organised by one of | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
his sponsors. Seeing the picture of me and my dad embracing each other, | :24:39. | :24:49. | |
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it was just fantastic. It's something we will never forget. | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
Sorry, would you sign my flag for me? You so gracious, you done a | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
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With the US Open trophy safely packed, he sets off with his stare | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
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at -- he sets off with his dad and I am absolutely knackered. Monday | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
was a long day for me but I had a commitment to go to one of my | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
sponsors and I couldn't, just because I had won the day before, I | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
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This is the first time in a week that I have picked up a paper and | :26:19. | :26:29. | |
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see my face on every paper I picked As the others digest the headlines, | :26:43. | :26:53. | |
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An hour later, the bleary eyed champion emerges into the early | :27:08. | :27:18. | |
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A little tired but I'm all right. Not too bad. Ian Humphreys | :27:43. | :27:52. | |
congratulated me. My name his team and if you guys need anything along | :27:52. | :28:02. | |
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the way, just let me know. Perfect, thank you. I had better speak to | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
mum, I haven't spoken to her yet. Well I try and bring the house | :28:08. | :28:18. | |
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again? Hello! I'm all right, how are you? Sorry I didn't get to | :28:28. | :28:35. | |
speak to you last night. It's still hasn't sunk in. It was nice, the | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
last couple of holes, I could actually enjoy it. It's all good, a | :28:40. | :28:50. | |
major champion! It's with us, you can have a look at it, it's in a | :28:50. | :29:00. | |
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big case. See you later! Great form? I said to her last night, | :29:03. | :29:12. | |
what are you crying for? She said, tears of joy! I think she watched | :29:12. | :29:21. | |
the golf on her own at home with no one around her. Great to speak to | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
mum and mum and dad have done everything for me so I'm sure they | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
are obviously over the moon and hopefully this isn't the last one | :29:29. | :29:39. | |
:29:39. | :29:47. | ||
for them. A he has not been to bed I need to share something with you, | :29:47. | :29:53. | |
you might laugh but it's serious. On Friday, they went to work and I | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
had a lot of meetings and I was watching you on my computer online. | :29:58. | :30:08. | |
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This all these shots and I cried. On Friday? On Friday! Those terms | :30:09. | :30:16. | |
of emotions, you get them when your head is in the sky, it was that. It | :30:16. | :30:26. | |
:30:26. | :30:27. | ||
When you make a commitment like that you have the hollow ret. I | :30:27. | :30:37. | |
:30:37. | :30:45. | ||
didn't think twice about it. -- you have to one let it. -- honour. This | :30:45. | :30:55. | |
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happened to the previous winner. There we go! Got it? Back in | :31:03. | :31:09. | |
Northern Ireland for two years in a row. It is huge. Thank you very | :31:10. | :31:19. | |
:31:20. | :31:28. | ||
much. This looks so good, exactly what we needed. It is incredible, | :31:28. | :31:34. | |
obviously, the day after the Open championship, especially being a | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
young person, it makes it come together so beautifully. We have | :31:39. | :31:44. | |
gone through an era where one at lead, Tiger Woods, did a great job | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
and it is the changing of the card. To have a young person, not someone | :31:49. | :31:55. | |
in the middle of they pack, the Masters was something incredible. | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
The fact that he lost it and it got away from him and then coming back | :31:59. | :32:05. | |
from winning the US Open, I think makes it even better. It was great | :32:05. | :32:11. | |
I played with a couple of young kids there. Thank you very much. I | :32:11. | :32:17. | |
enjoyed it. Nice to me due. It was great at the trait do with me so | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
that everyone could have a picture with it. -- to have the trophy with | :32:22. | :32:29. | |
me. It was not the look worse way to spend a day after winning your | :32:29. | :32:35. | |
first major. There you go, no problem. So you played against | :32:35. | :32:44. | |
Northern Ireland? He played against Rangers... Lafferty as well and | :32:44. | :32:54. | |
:32:54. | :33:16. | ||
Steve Davis. They you are, perfect. It is very good! Cool. It is | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
exceptional because he would have a million reasons not to show up | :33:20. | :33:25. | |
today and everyone would say it is normal. The fact that even though | :33:25. | :33:31. | |
he would have had those reasons he is still showing up, it is big, it | :33:31. | :33:41. | |
:33:41. | :33:42. | ||
is respectful, it is who he is as a person. With the party in full | :33:42. | :33:48. | |
swing, Rory and Gerry take some time out by themselves. That was a | :33:48. | :33:53. | |
nice moment when me and Dad could cope in the locker room and watch a | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
bit of tennis. It was the first real couple of hours but I had to | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
myself, just having my dad with me and chilling out and thinking about | :34:01. | :34:09. | |
what had happened. I thought, growing up, 12, 13, 14, he was good. | :34:09. | :34:15. | |
But it did nothing you would have happened as quick. I thought maybe | :34:15. | :34:20. | |
25, 26. To be honest, it is any sinking in now. All the records | :34:20. | :34:25. | |
that he broke and what he has done. It is fantastic for him, for me and | :34:25. | :34:31. | |
his mother. As we Rory be joined the guests, preparations are under | :34:31. | :34:39. | |
way for his journey to Boston airport. I'm calling from the | :34:39. | :34:44. | |
sheriff's office. While be coming up with Rory McIlroy. We are the | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
and believing in approximately 15 minutes from Cape Cod so it will be | :34:49. | :34:59. | |
:34:59. | :35:03. | ||
about 7pm that we get there. Happy major to you! Happy major to you! | :35:03. | :35:13. | |
:35:13. | :35:16. | ||
Happy Bajan, dear Rory, happy major to you! Obviously, he is a good | :35:16. | :35:19. | |
player but it takes a lot more than being a good player to bounce back | :35:19. | :35:24. | |
the way that he did. It is a very special performance and I'm sure it | :35:24. | :35:30. | |
will stick in the mind of a lot of people for a long time to. Rory, | :35:30. | :35:34. | |
when he did not close at the Masters, at the Americans really | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
feel for people that fall down and get back up and keep fighting away | :35:38. | :35:43. | |
and trying to regain that winning attitude. He honestly had it and | :35:43. | :35:50. | |
proved it this week. By that stage, I was just looking forward to | :35:50. | :35:58. | |
getting home. We met a very nice police man from Ireland who now | :35:58. | :36:03. | |
lives in Cape Cod and organise the police escort to the airport for us. | :36:03. | :36:10. | |
He ended up taking me in his car. They it is not often that we get to | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
take a fellow Irishman and I am looking forward to taking him to | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
the airport, give him an escort all the way up so that he can get | :36:18. | :36:27. | |
through. It will be a nice smooth ride all the way up. Great to be | :36:27. | :36:30. | |
able to move all the traffic out of the way and get to the airport | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
quick enough and then turn up to the airport and have the state | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
troopers waiting there, or escorting us into the terminal. Get | :36:39. | :36:44. | |
injecting and through the security, it was incredible. Definitely a | :36:44. | :36:51. | |
nice way to get through an airport more quickly! Thanks very much. A | :36:51. | :36:56. | |
last thing I wanted to do was wait ing Hopper now lie as security. | :36:56. | :37:06. | |
:37:06. | :37:06. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 59 seconds | :37:06. | :38:06. | |
That was nice of them to do that Good night. We just need to | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
boarding pass. Finally back in the UK, Rory and his dad go their | :38:10. | :38:17. | |
separate ways. Good seeing you again. Absolutely. Gerry is heading | :38:17. | :38:23. | |
home to Belfast but Rory has got TV commitments. At the airport he gets | :38:23. | :38:29. | |
the first taste of how his fame has rocketed. I didn't realise the | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
amount of attention I was going to get. The people at Heathrow did a | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
fantastic job in getting us from the playing through immigration, | :38:38. | :38:44. | |
getting our bags, and straight out of there. I more right, a little | :38:44. | :38:49. | |
tired, but nice to get a bit of sleep. Just got another bit to do | :38:49. | :38:57. | |
and then I am home. Looking for to that, good to see everyone. -- | :38:57. | :39:07. | |
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Oh deer. The message is that been the most to me are the ones from | :39:11. | :39:17. | |
back home, close friends and family and everything like that. But to | :39:17. | :39:23. | |
get messages of support from the likes of Rafael Nadal and Wayne | :39:23. | :39:31. | |
Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Andy Murray, Jack Nicklaus, it is really nice. | :39:31. | :39:36. | |
It is a bit overwhelming in a way. But it is nice that people saw what | :39:36. | :39:43. | |
happened a couple of months ago and saw me do what they did at the US | :39:43. | :39:49. | |
open to make up for it. Rory is off to record again showed before the | :39:49. | :39:57. | |
last leg of his journey to Northern Ireland. -- record a game show. | :39:57. | :40:03. | |
There is no rest for his manager, Stewart. But for Rory, time for | :40:03. | :40:13. | |
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There is just one more short flight and Rory will be home. Hazard | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
slowly but surely sunk in that you are a major champion? No, I still | :40:27. | :40:33. | |
get goose bumps and I hear it. It will take me a while. The need to | :40:33. | :40:40. | |
reflect on it back home, and by myself. The don't feel as if I have | :40:40. | :40:45. | |
had any time to myself yet to really think about what I have done. | :40:45. | :40:51. | |
It will be nice just to sit at home and think about everything and | :40:51. | :40:56. | |
think about going forward as well. The Open Championship is coming up | :40:56. | :40:59. | |
in four weeks and one to give myself the best chance to win that | :40:59. | :41:05. | |
as well. Let us get it back where it belongs for the second year in a | :41:05. | :41:15. | |
:41:15. | :41:30. | ||
There are some serious names any get to that era. Yes. Even before I | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
won the US Open I felt like you put yourself out there in the spot | :41:34. | :41:38. | |
light and you have to present yourself in the right way. For the | :41:38. | :41:43. | |
most part, I have been able to do that. A lot of that has to do with | :41:43. | :41:48. | |
how I was raised and how my mum and dad brought me up. People are going | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
to watch what you do and you have to be respectful and just do the | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
simple things right. Have good manners and just be a decent person. | :41:57. | :42:01. | |
If you can do that it can get to a long way, which I have learned | :42:01. | :42:06. | |
recently. I don't want it just to be this, I want to keep going. That | :42:06. | :42:13. | |
is what I tell people, this is great, first major, the US Open, | :42:13. | :42:20. | |
but I need to push on. I understand that. Hopefully it won't be the | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
last. I want to put pressure on myself to do well. That is | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
something that Jack Nicklaus told me, he always put pressure on | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
himself to be up there. If I want to bring more of these things I | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
have to keep that pressure. People are going to make comparisons and | :42:37. | :42:42. | |
I'd try to play them down as much as I can. I don't want to say this | :42:42. | :42:48. | |
to be disrespectful in any way but it is only one. A lot of great | :42:48. | :42:52. | |
players have won one of two major championships. But I amateur stage | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
in my career where, I feel, to get the first on so early is fantastic | :42:57. | :43:01. | |
and I need to keep working hard and keep preparing well for each and | :43:01. | :43:11. | |
:43:11. | :43:15. | ||
every tournament to give myself great chances to win. Belfast. | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
Harry's house. I was coming into land at Belfast and almost felt | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
nervous, getting home. I'm always so excited to get home, cannot wait | :43:24. | :43:33. | |
to get home. See the family, see the docks and take it easy. But | :43:33. | :43:41. | |
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. | |
:43:57. | :44:09. | ||
know that you're on your way home It is nice to be home. It doesn't | :44:09. | :44:19. | |
:44:19. | :44:46. | ||
really matter what the weather is Hello boys! Hello, hello! It was | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
great to get home and walking through the front door with the US | :44:51. | :45:01. | |
:45:01. | :45:07. | ||
Open and seeing my mum come in through the kitchen. I love you and | :45:07. | :45:17. | |
I'm so proud of you! That hug from my mum, I'll never forget that | :45:17. | :45:20. | |
because it was great to see her for the first time in a wine and to | :45:20. | :45:30. | |
:45:30. | :45:34. | ||
come home with that trophy, it was incredible. Hello you! It was just | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
a unique experience, you only when you first major once and for him to | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
come and carrying the trophy and for his mum and dad there, ready to | :45:43. | :45:53. | |
:45:53. | :45:55. | ||
greet him, it was spectacular. is a good boy? I think there had | :45:55. | :46:01. | |
been away for four or five weeks. I haven't seen my mum or dad, or | :46:01. | :46:10. | |
holly or the dogs. Just to get home, it was almost like, my shoulders | :46:10. | :46:17. | |
just went down, it was so nice just to get home. It was great to spend | :46:17. | :46:22. | |
time with them in this house, have a quiet dinner and chat about | :46:22. | :46:30. | |
things, it was great. The next morning, Holywood Golf Club is | :46:30. | :46:40. | |
preparing to welcome home its hero. We're completely packed up here. | :46:40. | :46:49. | |
Are we still getting members coming up? A little more fresh this | :46:49. | :46:59. | |
:46:59. | :47:34. | ||
Well, trophy! Do you know where it I don't think I've ever been | :47:34. | :47:39. | |
nervous going to Hollywood golf- club on all my life. This feels | :47:39. | :47:44. | |
different, it could be crazy. It will be good to get back to | :47:44. | :47:51. | |
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 | :47:59. | :48:08. | |
:48:09. | :48:15. | ||
there. Well, yes. Unbelievable! How it a golf tournament can create so | :48:15. | :48:25. | |
:48:25. | :48:43. | ||
MUSIC. I was saying, it's behind me, I | :48:43. | :48:53. | |
:48:53. | :49:01. | ||
Do you want to hold it? Not on your own! I have to hold it as well. | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
It's great to see so many people here. All the support I get from | :49:05. | :49:13. | |
back home this fantastic. It's great and I'm really glad to be | :49:13. | :49:23. | |
:49:23. | :49:37. | ||
Rory McIlory! To bring this back home, not just | :49:37. | :49:45. | |
for myself, for the people of Holywood and Northern Ireland... It | :49:45. | :49:50. | |
makes me very proud to be from here and this is great for me but this | :49:50. | :50:00. | |
:50:00. | :50:16. | ||
one is just as much for everybody This stuff doesn't happen to people. | :50:16. | :50:22. | |
From what happened in a Costa. Spending two months and working | :50:22. | :50:27. | |
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 | :50:32. | :50:42. | |
:50:42. | :51:17. | ||
After a whirlwind few days, it's time for Rory to take stock and | :51:17. | :51:24. | |
reflect at home with holly. Their relationship is now firmly back on. | :51:24. | :51:29. | |
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, | :51:53. | :51:56. | |
I thought I wanted to focus on my game and I wanted to take a break | :51:56. | :52:04. | |
but I realised pretty quickly that I had made a mistake. I had to do | :52:04. | :52:13. | |
quite a lot of begging and grovelling to get her back! She has | :52:13. | :52:18. | |
been fantastic, she definitely keeps my feet on the ground. She | :52:18. | :52:23. | |
knows me better than anyone, I have spent so much time with her. She | :52:23. | :52:30. | |
knows that things to say to me, she has been a great support and it is | :52:30. | :52:35. | |
great to get home and see her. It is great to spend time with her, it | :52:35. | :52:45. | |
:52:45. | :52:49. | ||
takes my mind of everything else that is going on. After several | :52:49. | :52:53. | |
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 | :52:57. | :53:07. | |
:53:07. | :53:23. | ||
in Hollywood. This is incredible, incredible! Sometimes it hits you, | :53:23. | :53:33. | |
:53:33. | :53:34. | ||
it is just unbelievable. You've just got to live your life the way | :53:34. | :53:41. | |
you always did, the way you always do. Take it one day at a time. I | :53:41. | :53:45. | |
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, | :53:52. | :53:58. | |
it was brilliant, fantastic. I didn't think a few years ago, I | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
would do something like that with teachers asking for autographs at | :54:02. | :54:12. | |
:54:12. | :54:28. | ||
its ties, a great feeling to be But almost inevitably, it's not | :54:28. | :54:34. | |
long before Rory's thoughts turn once again to golf. Impressive | :54:34. | :54:42. | |
practice range at his home is now finished. Time to look ahead. And | :54:42. | :54:49. | |
said his future goals. I knew that when I went home and went to | :54:49. | :54:53. | |
practise and find a lot of people coming up to me, I wasn't getting | :54:53. | :54:58. | |
the work done I want it. To be able to build something like this, it's | :54:58. | :55:02. | |
an investment in the future and some said it built, I just won my | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
first major so it has paid for itself already. It has been great | :55:06. | :55:13. | |
for me to come and practice, even for an hour, however tiny you want. | :55:13. | :55:20. | |
Don't have to put on a normal golf stuff, just come and practice. | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
have you got as facilities? Four greens, for tea boxes, three | :55:24. | :55:33. | |
different types of Sanz. I have links Steyne rough, US Open Steyne | :55:33. | :55:41. | |
rough, everything I encounter when I might playing? What is the upkeep | :55:41. | :55:48. | |
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, | :55:53. | :55:58. | |
it is kept like The Championship style of golf course. To build a | :55:58. | :56:02. | |
facility like this, very much means you are making a long-term | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
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 | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
would be a shame to move away and not have it. I couldn't do this | :56:16. | :56:20. | |
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 | :56:36. | :56:46. | |
:56:46. | :56:57. | ||
I said, the rough is going to be hard. This is one it was like last | :56:57. | :57:07. | |
week. They grew that especially for you? Yes, I can't ring up and ask | :57:07. | :57:15. | |
what speed the greens are going to be. They can say, around 10.5. I | :57:15. | :57:21. | |
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. | :57:53. | :57:58. | |
Before I won the US Open, I had all the money I ever wanted, it is not | :57:58. | :58:03. | |
a motivating factor for me. Especially after winning a major, I | :58:03. | :58:08. |