Expect ‘wholesale changes’ from Rory McIlroy at Augusta in Masters | Golf Channel Podcast

The Golf Channel Podcast discusses Rory McIlroy’s outlook at Augusta, where they highlight the effort he’s put into making adjustments that will better position him for success at the Masters. #GolfChannel #GCPodcast #RoryMcIlroy #TheMasters
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I I was taken by the idea and you know if you want to take Rory in this totality and what’s going on it feels like from the outside looking in that these are wholesale changes that he’s doing going into next week and for all the right reasons like we’ve talked

About this he’s tried to win the career Grand Slam now for essentially a decade and he keeps coming up short so this time around he’s decided to do something drastic that was go to see Butch last week in Las Vegas that was Monday and Tuesday the last two days spent I mean

The butch the butch thing was not planned I mean he didn’t he didn’t say on January one you know you know what two weeks before the Masters comes around I’m gonna go I’m gonna I’m going to go and see Butch Harman and make sure everything’s in the right place to me

That shows he’s not totally convinced on what he was working on with his longtime swing coach Michael banon who obviously lives in Northern Ireland that’s not the it’s not the first time he’s done this either you need to point that out 2020 2021 I mean this was three or four years

Ago last time he saw him did this and Butch has done this with other players as well he did it with Jordan Speed like this is not out of the ordinary there last time we saw Rory did we not at the Players Championship he said I’m between

Two swings right I got a drive got driver swing and I got an iron swing and he’s trying to meld the two if he was not if he was convinced that he was on the right path and he was seeing great results in his practice sessions he

Would not have gone to see Butch Haron he clearly needed at something to get him over the edge to make his practice sessions a little bit better I think that’s I think that’s obvious no I think better to say what was obvious is is he just needed to hear probably the same

Thing phrased a slightly different way I think that’s a better way of saying he went for confirmation since you haven’t spoken with butch or Rory on this one I’m gonna go ahead and go with me because I think it’s important to point out that he’s done this before and

You’re right he’s stuck between four years ago he stuck between right he stuck between two swings as he talked about today as well and I think the matter the important thing to point out here he doesn’t need to figure out which one of those swings is the right swing

Just need to be confident going into next week he’s played that Golf Course well so that’s what he’s trying to do with all of these things like it sounds complicated it sounds intense but what he’s really trying to do here is just slow things down simplify things as much

As possible and that’s why after telling us at the players that he wasn’t G to take a pre-tournament trip up to Augusta didn’t feel like he could get much out of it he spent Monday and Tuesday of this week up at Augusta trying to get that early practice in he doesn’t plan

On getting to Augusta next week until essentially Tuesday afternoon he play nine holes on Tuesday nine holes on Wednesday that’s interesting that is and I think all of it goes to the idea that he has been tinkering with this for a long time and it was funny talking with

Other players I talked with Adam Scott and Max hom and Ricky Fowler about this they’re all trying to do the same thing but it’s magnified when it comes to Rory because of the stakes because of the idea that he’s trying to do something that very very few people in the game

Have done and that’s when the career Grand Slam and I think better than most he understands the gravity of that and it’s probably weighed on him heavily for all of these years and so instead of doing the same thing over over and over again definition of Insanity he’s trying

To find a new way I’m not saying this is the right way but I certainly appreciate the idea that I’m going to mix this all up and see if this way works I mean physically he he knows that his approach play has been really poor this year that’s the most important statistic it’s

The greatest indicator of success at Augusta nashal like I can see wanting to address that the they’re not coming in until Tuesday afternoon and I’m sure he’ll give a press conference early earlier on Tuesday then go play nine holes then play Wednesday that’s typically the the big uh press

Conference day at Augusta National that to me is very interesting because as we’ve documented on this podcast over the past decade he’s tried everything he’s tried everything to break the streak at Augusta National he’s tried doing puzzles at night he’s tried not looking at his phone he’s tried to

Immerse himself he’s tried saying that the Masters is the most important tournament the mass is a not important tournament he’s going to play the week before he’s not going to play the week before he’s literally tried everything what he we has not tried at least to my

Knowledge he has not tried coming in to uh the Masters Tournament on Tuesday afternoon but I actually like this strategy Rex the reason I like this strategy is I’m gonna be in Augusta Georgia on Friday I’m gonna start covering the Augusta National Women’s Amateur and by the time Monday or

Tuesday rolls around of Masters week I’m already kind of beat I’m already kind of ready for the Masters to get going amplify that times 1 million for the Players whose entire legacies can be rearranged ranged by what happens over those four days at Augusta National and

I can see if you’re on site as a player and you get there Sunday you play 18 holes you play nine holes and you kind of add to the week by Tuesday or Wednesday like you’ve got to be itching and ready to go and for a player like

Roy mroy who is now what in his 10th or 11th try to complete the career Grand Slam at the Masters it has to be absolutely excruciating and so why not spend an extra 24 36 48 hours at home get some sort of equilibrium and then head up into the pressure cauldron that

Is the Masters I like this strategy he’s not gonna learn anything over the first three days that he doesn’t already know yeah I mean that’s the important point like I asked Adam Scott yesterday if he had any intention of doing like a scouting trip beforehand he’s like why

Like this is going to be my 23rd Masters how much more do I have to learn like I asked Rory about the new T box on number two and his comment to me was I didn’t even realize it was new someone told me just kind of like when someone told me I

Was kind of like oh okay I didn’t even realize it now there’s a couple changes to some greens that I’m sure we’ll talk about next week but by and large it’s the same Golf Course you’ve seen for the last 20 years essentially it is interesting to me and and again talking

With Adam Scott about this that he was really really quick when I asked him how he prepares for the Masters what he feels like is the best way of doing it and I put it in the context of Rory seems to be tinging with you know the

Mechanics here he wants to find a better way to do this and he he kind of shrugged and he said the obvious he said the quiet thing out loud it’s well my plight and Rory’s plight is a little bit different him meaning I I have a green

Jacket he doesn’t like it’s I understand where he’s coming from on this and there’s no way there is no formula for this other than and I’m sure I would be really really curious in his heart of hearts if I asked Rory did you ask ever ask Arnold Palmer about how the pressure

Built on him not having won the PGA Championship and that’s what kept Arnold from winning the career Grand Slam because I’m sure this is a conversation they had together and how it never gets easier like you never reach a point where you’re kind of shrug and you’re

Like okay if it happens it happens that that never occurs it just continues to build and continues to build well into you’re gray and you’re old and you realize that oh I don’t have a chance of winning this and I’m sure that in the back of his mind is driving him to make

All these changes