00:00Rory, of all the players in this week's field, has the best career scoring average at Quail Hollow in the Wells Fargo Championship, 69.33, 46 rounds there.
00:11He has won here at Quail Hollow four times on tour. He's won two PGA Championships.
00:17When the conditions get, when it's a long course and the conditions are soft, that plays right into Rory McIlroy's hand.
00:23Totally.
00:23He just completed the career grand slam at the Masters. He seems freed up in a lot of ways.
00:27Just had a solid finish last week at Philly Cricket, in and around there, but didn't have to exert the energy to close a win and finish that tournament off.
00:36Why would Rory McIlroy not win this golf tournament?
00:39I'm just sitting here. We got some great stats here.
00:42Like, best cumulative score to par at Quail Hollow over the last 15 years.
00:46Rory's minus 102. Ricky Fowler, next best at 47 under.
00:51Which, by the way, there you go. That's a good little tidbit on Rick there.
00:54I mean, he's just so good tee to green. He's first in total, first tee to green, first to approach.
01:03It's a perfect golf course for Rory McIlroy.
01:07We don't need to belabor about it because we know exactly what we're going to get from him this week.
01:11He's got to be more accurate with the driver, clean up just a little bit of the ball striking.
01:15And if Rory doesn't play good this week, it'd be the biggest shocking thing that we've seen this year, especially with the form that he's in.
01:24The only, okay, the one thing I will say is what happens to the mindset of a player who all they've thought about is winning a major championship again.
01:37It's been this long, long, long drought, and finally he wins the Masters, he wins the Grand Slam, and, you know, a month later, he's at his next major championship.
01:45It's going to be interesting to see how he maybe approaches this week because he's talking about being more relaxed,
01:56and I'm wondering if being more relaxed maybe doesn't have him quite as focused and on a mission, but that would be the only thing I can bring up, right?
02:05It's a completely fair delving into his psyche.
02:09You hit the peak. You did it.
02:11I think we're all playing the same game.
02:12It's like almost the thing that maybe I equated to, I don't know if this is accurate or not, but like a guy in a contract here where once you get your contract,
02:21once you get your big contract signed, you get to kind of relax a little bit.
02:24His legacy's set.
02:25His legacy's set, and, okay, are you less stressed? Absolutely.
02:29But are you less motivated? Maybe.
02:31I mean, it depends on how far he wants to push.
02:34Like, I think that a lot of the mindset stuff, you know, really has to do with the work he's done with Bob Rotella,
02:41which was, you know, as he spoke about in his master's press conference, a key, key deal.
02:45So you'd assume that that sort of approach would continue.
