Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, that’s a classy club of two legends, hiding their mutual respect for each and not gushing. It was not the kind of team golf that has divided the world, but one that keeps together two of the best the game has ever seen.
An hour before Rory McIlroy came to meet the media, Tiger Woods was in the room and commented,
“No question, he’ll do it at some point. Rory Mcilroy is too talented, too good. He’s going to be playing this event for a very long time. He’ll get it done. It’s just a matter of when.”
He added,
“But, yes, I think that Rory McIlroy will be a great Masters champion one day, and it could be this week. You never know. I just think that just, again, the talent that he has, the way he plays game and the golf course fits his eye, it’s just a matter of time.”
Rory McIlroy, when told about it, almost blushed, and said,
“It’s very flattering when someone of that stature says that. It’s nice to hear, in my opinion, the best player ever to play the game say something like that. So, yeah, I mean, does that mean that it’s going to happen? Obviously not.”
“But he’s been around the game long enough to know that I at least have the potential to do it. I know I’ve got the potential to do it too. It’s not as if I haven’t been a pretty good player for the last couple of decades. So, but, yeah, it’s nice to hear it when it comes out of his mouth.”
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