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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Rory McIlroy has moved on from the esoteric – he was reading “The Courage to be Disliked,” in February – and is reading Josh Grisham’s “The Reckoning” this week during the 89th Masters.
“For the first time in a long time am reading a novel,” he said during his Masters press conference on Tuesday. “I actually got some fiction into my life.”
In previous years, McIlroy has talked about killing time by doing puzzles at his rental house, and he’s also taught himself to juggle. He’s still trying to put the pieces together for what constitutes a winning approach to the Masters and ending his major-less skid, which dates to the 2014 PGA Championship, not to mention another chance to complete the career Grand Slam.
McIlroy also is watching the Netflix hit “Bridgerton” with wife Erica.
“I didn't think I would,” he said. “I was very against watching it, but Erica convinced me. So we're on a bit of a "Bridgerton" kick this week, yeah.”
It appears that McIlroy’s wife rules the remote. He’s not watching “Gladiator,” or a Jason Stratham flick, Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner cracked on a Masters preview conference call with media last week. At the Players Championship, McIlroy said he watched the chick-flick “The Devil Wears Prada,” the night before his Monday morning playoff victory over J.J. Spaun. It got Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee to reference McIlroy and the Masters in terms of that popular movie.
“I would say Augusta National is the Miranda Priestly for Rory McIlroy playing as Andrea Sachs. It is his nemesis. It brings out the worst golf in Rory annually that we see almost every year,” he said. “It was his worst golf last year in majors, worst golf the year before. Two years before that, it was his worst golf. He annually underperforms there. He hits on average about 42 greens, and on average, the winner hits about 52 greens.”
Chamblee continued with another movie reference, citing “My Cousin Vinny.”
“There’s that scene where Joe Pesci’s character, Vinny Gambini is sitting on the patio talking to Marisa Tomei’s character, where he’s talking about the pressure that she’s heaping on him. To paraphrase, ‘Your biological clock, our marriage, their lives, my law career. Is there any more pressure that you can heap on the outcome of this case?’
"I almost feel like that’s the same with Rory. It’s like major after major after major, year after year has gone by, and it’s been a decade, and that’s all anybody asks about. They whisper it. They say it out loud. He’s just too good a player to have had — I think it’s one of the biggest head scratchers in the game.
"The pressure of winning another major championship, I think, it’s the most pressure that anybody in golf faces, without a doubt, other than captain’s Ryder Cups every other year. It’s the most pressure any player faces every time Rory tees it up in a major, and then it’s tenfold any time he tees it up no Masters.”
Could there be a reckoning this week? Time will tell but if McIlroy is in contention perhaps he can rip the remote away and flip on “Judgement Day.”
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Rory McIlroy reading The Reckoning, watching Bridgerton at Masters
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“For the first time in a long time am reading a novel,” he said during his Masters press conference on Tuesday. “I actually got some fiction into my life.”
In previous years, McIlroy has talked about killing time by doing puzzles at his rental house, and he’s also taught himself to juggle. He’s still trying to put the pieces together for what constitutes a winning approach to the Masters and ending his major-less skid, which dates to the 2014 PGA Championship, not to mention another chance to complete the career Grand Slam.
McIlroy also is watching the Netflix hit “Bridgerton” with wife Erica.
“I didn't think I would,” he said. “I was very against watching it, but Erica convinced me. So we're on a bit of a "Bridgerton" kick this week, yeah.”
It appears that McIlroy’s wife rules the remote. He’s not watching “Gladiator,” or a Jason Stratham flick, Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner cracked on a Masters preview conference call with media last week. At the Players Championship, McIlroy said he watched the chick-flick “The Devil Wears Prada,” the night before his Monday morning playoff victory over J.J. Spaun. It got Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee to reference McIlroy and the Masters in terms of that popular movie.
“I would say Augusta National is the Miranda Priestly for Rory McIlroy playing as Andrea Sachs. It is his nemesis. It brings out the worst golf in Rory annually that we see almost every year,” he said. “It was his worst golf last year in majors, worst golf the year before. Two years before that, it was his worst golf. He annually underperforms there. He hits on average about 42 greens, and on average, the winner hits about 52 greens.”
Chamblee continued with another movie reference, citing “My Cousin Vinny.”
“There’s that scene where Joe Pesci’s character, Vinny Gambini is sitting on the patio talking to Marisa Tomei’s character, where he’s talking about the pressure that she’s heaping on him. To paraphrase, ‘Your biological clock, our marriage, their lives, my law career. Is there any more pressure that you can heap on the outcome of this case?’
"I almost feel like that’s the same with Rory. It’s like major after major after major, year after year has gone by, and it’s been a decade, and that’s all anybody asks about. They whisper it. They say it out loud. He’s just too good a player to have had — I think it’s one of the biggest head scratchers in the game.
"The pressure of winning another major championship, I think, it’s the most pressure that anybody in golf faces, without a doubt, other than captain’s Ryder Cups every other year. It’s the most pressure any player faces every time Rory tees it up in a major, and then it’s tenfold any time he tees it up no Masters.”
Could there be a reckoning this week? Time will tell but if McIlroy is in contention perhaps he can rip the remote away and flip on “Judgement Day.”
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Rory McIlroy reading The Reckoning, watching Bridgerton at Masters
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