Rory McIlroy's Grand Slam Achievement & Its Impact on His Legacy

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00:00Let's talk a little bit as Rory gets his green jacket about really zoom out and talk about legacy here.

00:06And to do so, we're going to do it with the help of our great partner AHEAD.

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00:17And the reason we're using this segment is because Rory stitched together a career Grand Slam,

00:22his fifth major win today at Augusta National, finishes it off.

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00:41I'd say Rory brought some new in to combine with some of those old majors and reminded people,

00:46hey, I still got it, and truly stitches that Grand Slam together.

00:51So I read you some of the names earlier of guys he's alongside now.

00:55Byron Nelson, Seve Ballesteros, Brooks Koepka.

00:58If we want to kind of jump ahead to six majors, Nick Faldo, Phil Mickelson, Lee Trevino.

01:05Help me at this point take stock of Rory's legacy within the game of golf.

01:11I think he's the sixth guy to win a Grand Slam.

01:14Let me check on that for you as well.

01:16It's the sixth guy to win a Grand Slam.

01:18Standing on, I mean, the 18th green in a green jacket.

01:20I don't think I ever thought he was actually going to do it.

01:25I don't.

01:26Gene Saracen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and Rory McIlroy.

01:32So the question you asked me was what?

01:35Where does he stay?

01:35Like, where do you place his legacy?

01:37Is he top ten?

01:39Yeah, dude.

01:40He just won the Grand Slam, man.

01:42Like, it's into a different echelon.

01:46It's why this one was so important and why every year we talked about leading up to it,

01:51whether he could do it.

01:53And I think the floodgates are going to open for this guy.

01:56I think he's going to get to double-digit major wins.

01:59He's playing as good as golf as he ever has.

02:02And he's the longest.

02:04He's one of the longest players in the game still at his age.

02:07So we could see a run from him that's going to be incredible.

02:11And, man, we got a great really just major season over the next five years, right?

02:18We got Scotty Scheffler.

02:21We got Rory McIlroy.

02:22We got Sandy Schauffler.

02:23Ludwig O'Berg.

02:25I mean, you have some very likable players, and then you throw in some live guys as well

02:30that adds to the drama.

02:31I think golf's in a very weird place, but an oddly healthy place with something like

02:37this happening today.

02:39Crazy.

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