Rory McIlroy’s American Open Drama ends with a weird note

Oakmont, Pennsylvania – The best golf is a good theater.

Although Rory McIlroy opens this week in the U.S. also Very good theater.

The upward behavior took place Thursday and Friday, when McIlroy was thrown away at the club, breaking the t-shirt marking and overturning the fight for the press. The moments were built on Saturday afternoon, when McIlroy surprised reporters through a strangely aggressive press conference, who largely blamed them for their absence. They reached their highest duty on Sunday when McIlroy shot threes below 3 and spoke in a more cheerful manner, which was the move of falling and showing the night with a smiling face.

If McIlroy’s U.S. Open was a movie, it wouldn’t be scored for clarity. No one in the world of golf knows what the Master Champion is these days. Apart from his score and travel schedule, fewer people know what changes have happened between Saturday and Sunday to justify the shift in tone. We can guess that he is not excited about the reports of the failed driver test of the PGA Championship and is still quarreling with the Green Jacket/Grand Slam Hangover, but none of these actions are suitable for crimes that detonate media relations after 18 years of introspection. The larger conspiracy is difficult to understand.

If McIlroy’s U.S. Open is a movie, though, you’ll keep watching it. Maybe not the fierce attention to the Augusta country in April, but with the morbid plot you might find out while consuming Greek tragedy.

In many ways, McIlroy’s later life was clearly Promethean. Like the story of the Titans who discovered the fire, McIlroy’s gains from changing history seem to come at a price. Thankfully, the press and golf Especially press-a more friendly punishment than a bird trained to eat liver, but it is not difficult to see the parallel lines. For McIlroy, the daily question reminds the difference between achievement and happiness. After Augusta, he will always have the former, but in Oakmont, he seems to have missed the latter.

“Look, I climbed Mount Everest in April,” McIlroy said Sunday. “I think after doing something like this, you have to back down and you have to look for another mountain to climb.”

McIlroy suggested that this year’s Open Championship’s homeland Royal image might be the Johor Bahru he was looking for – maybe he was right. But from the side of the clubhouse in Oakmont Sunday afternoon, the U.S. Open Week drama seems to be much more than golf courses.

In many ways, the theaters this week are always more than McIlroy has failed to talk to the media. There are already a lot of things in his absence, but on Saturday night’s golf channel analyst Paul McGinley’s best friend is more poignant than McIlroy’s best friend Paul McGinley Alive.

“I don’t like it [his comments]. I don’t like seeing it,” McKinley said. “When he does, because people look up to him, meetings like his body language and short language don’t serve him. I’m disappointed with Rory. There was something to eat at him. He didn’t let us know what this was, but something was wrong. ”

Instead, this week’s theater It’s actually about the last part of McKinley’s analysis, about what Serve Rory McIlroy. After a decade of torture and many painful press conferences, McIlroy lives a life of fighting the media cold war like the protagonist in the Greek tragedy. McIlroy can live comfortably in the achievements he strives to achieve, not only being the star of his story, but also loving it.

Anyone who has gained great wealth will tell you that this is easier said than done. When the universe gives away a great gift, it usually comes at a huge price.

This will be the challenge and conspiracy of the next chapter – Rory McIlroy has just recently started writing.

Either way, it’s a great theater. But the biggest question is still: Who?