As we bid farewell to Pinehurst, the SI Golf team assesses McIlroy's future, DeChambeau's Presidents Cup case and more.
Welcome to the U.S. Open edition of SI Golf’s Fact or Fiction. We’re wrapping up major week with a series of statements for writers and editors to declare as “Fact” or “Fiction” along with a brief explanation. Responses may also be “Neutral” since there's a lot of gray area in golf.Rory McIlroy’s decade of major futility hit perhaps its lowest point Sunday with three bogeys in the final four holes which included two stunning missed putts from close range. He’ll never win another major.
Bryson DeChambeau’s win needs to increase the PGA Tour’s sense of urgency to reunify the game, and the Tour should start by getting DeChambeau on this fall’s U.S. Presidents Cup team.It’s hard to believe he will be part of the Presidents Cup team but it’s time to figure out a way beyond all the strife. If LIV golfers could play in the Ryder Cup as Bryson DeChambeau did, it’s time to let them play in the Presidents Cup, too. Forget all the politics. Pick the best team.
Rory McIlroy should be chastised for not doing interviews and quickly leaving the course after play was complete.It was crushing, to be sure. And Rory undoubtedly would have had little to say. But he knows the drill better than anyone. Jack Nicklaus was always outstanding in defeat. Greg Norman endured the questions for a long time after he blew the 1996 Masters to Nick Faldo. Jean Van de Velde was remarkable in defeat after a far more egregious loss at the 1999 British Open.
Patrick Cantlay finished in a tie for third and now has the title of the best player without a major.He’s in the conversation but Cantlay is not even the best in the top 10 in the world without a major. That “honor’’ goes to Ludvig Aberg, who probably deserves a bit more time trying, and Viktor Hovland, whose been in position to win more majors than Cantlay.Maybe the best player without a golf hat at the Ryder Cup, but not the best player without a major.
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