Harry Diamond deserves full credit here, calmed McIlroy down and took full advantage of the rules

Rory in this situation: "I'll take a drop." Phil in this situation (to his caddy): "Let's go with the driver.".

Like the new format with commentary helps us understand a lot easier! Thank you!

Let this be a reminder to all of us. When setting up, always think of where you want the ball to go. Never think of where you don't want the ball to go. Good luck with that, by the way.

Thank goodness for the Caddy! He managed to grip Rory and stop him making a daft decision!

“That is a golf shot.” -the John Madden of golf

I've been waiting for the spoken commentary! This is awesome!

Harry the caddy told him what shot to take, Rory has admitted this himself.

To be confident enough to take a penalty and drop it in the rough is just remarkable. If he can't get it up and down after that shot he's going to a playoff. Brilliant play and brilliant decision.

THAT is what is called a great golf shot. Kudos.

Nick faldo sobbing "all he needed was one more fade" was hilarious. 😂😂

The best option would have been to distract your opponents then use a foot wedge back out to short stuff.

To be fare,it was his caddy who made the call,great call to take the penalty

golf needs to institute "the Michelson option" where you are allowed to kick the ball one time and play it where it lies...

Superb channel greetings from Germany.

I think it’s good His caddy stepped up here and helped Rory come to that decision to take the drop. I was kind of feeling like Rory may be at the point of trying to find a new Caddy sometime in the near future..(as he has not been doing very well lately, and often caddy’s take some of the blame) but I think Harry may have saved His job for a little while longer with helping Rory make the right call here.

THANK YOU for explaining!!!!

Played with a mate who was in a similar situation. A shocking lie in a penalty area where his only option was to hit out sideways. To exactly where his penalty drop would be. He elected to hit and of course did not get out. Later when talking about it, taking the drop was a no brainer...

That last shot was a real gem.

Rory gave a demonstration (UKposts video) hitting seven iron 195 - normal club/distance for him - with slight breeze behind, of course with a preferred lie. Amazing that he chose an eight iron for this shot - and pulled it off! Kudos to caddie for calming Rory who certainly looked out-of-sorts.

Yeah Rory made that shot look simple, however that had so many possibilities of going wrong! Beautiful swing alignment and follow through!

Still an amazing shot from 195 fade lie thick rough gesh. 🔥

the channel editors need to add 60 seconds at the end so the stupid youtube promos of other vidoes do not pop on screen and block the view.

CRUSHED IT!

😂 Grande ragazzi!! Effettivamente di domande “ semplici “ che a volte non si fanno mai ce ne sono tantissime. Spiegare una volta per tutte le varie formule di gara, le categorie di gioco variano o no? Potrei continua all’infinito ma vorrei tenere impegnato GiGi sul Punto😉🤣

That was 100% pro execution and he got to use his gym strength.

That was great thinking

Awesome video!!

Very smart play!

⭐️That’s was a really tight swing from mcillroy , who just needs more rounds of golf

I do this practically every round I play. I'd rather have a clean(er) penalty shot than an impossible play it where it lies shot.

I did similar last week as the ball was settled right down at the bottom of a large clump of grass. I found a spot about a club length away which I knew would make the ball bounce and roll out of the drop area. I took two drops and then got to place it on a nice soft tuft, better than you can tee it up on a par 3! Wind was swirling, but I knew higher up it was strong, but steady right to left, I decided on a hard 7 rather than a gentle 6, to try and get it up through the swirling air. There was a strip of flat grass off the front left of the green, which would feed an approach shot between the front two bunkers and allow it to run down the gentle sloped green towards the hole. Ball slightly below my feet and with that wind, I aimed about 15 feet left of the green stip with a gentle fade so the ball would stop at the hole and not run past, weight slightly on my back foot for the extra ball height, concentrated on my shot shape and swing thought, one last deep breath, a slow smooth back swing and I shanked it 60 yards dead right. There is a difference between me and Rory...

Been out of competitive golf for the last 11yrs due to 3 neck surgeries. The new rule that requires a local rule to drop on either side of a lateral hazard sucks. If it were in place for this tournament, Rory could have had a much better spot to play his 3rd shot from!! Glad I watched the video, as I didn't know it required a local rule!!

I like all the second guessers (that are not on tour by the way) for Rory not taking the shot as it lay.

In this case, hindsight is always 20/20. If he pitched out to the fairway, that 3rd shot into the green would have been a heck of a lot easier. Yes, he can flub the pitch out, but he can also fail to hit a worldburner from a ball placed in the rough on a severe sidehill lie. So, since he hit an amazing recovery shot, the decision looks good. But, it could have gone the other way, too, and he could have hit a poor shot that came up short in the hazard, or flared it out way right. But, he hit a great shot out of a much trickier spot than the flat fairway. Either choice had a similar amount of high risk attached to it. The risk was just moved from shot 2 to shot 3. It was a gutsy decision, that's for sure.

Really Smart play from a Really Smart Player. Go Rory.

I blade an attempted flop shot into the club house and knock out the waitress trying to serve cocktails. The announcer: "and that was a golf shot"

Here's a question: when chipping can you place a marker on the green to aim at?

22 was my number in sports :)

Dotty I love your xomentating6 Don't ever leave us Pls and thank you

Smart man but hats off to that Cameraman who jumped over the stream! @3:13

I hear about club length. Is there a set length a club can be?

Jean van de Velde needed some advice like this from his Caddy in the '99 British Open............

me watching this video: How does this have 1.9M views? me at the end of the video: ah, yeah. there it is.

“That is a golf shot” Ah thank you for that I had no idea till you said something.

6:16- "That is a golf shot." I thought that was a bowling shot or a baseball shot? Could have fooled me 😂

That's a golf shot. No kidding. What should we think it was, a soccer kick?

3:51 After he placed it, why was he allowed to pick it up and place it again? That second placement sure was a lot better than the first one. I guess the ball moved after the first placement?

That WAS a golf shot!

Insane how long it takes!

There's a clip online of Rory deciding to take his shot even though it was right up against a rock in some sandy stuff. He takes it, smashes a cameraman and has an even worse next shot. Maybe that was in his mind.

Anyone peep the cameraman jump the stream at 3:15? xD

I do this all the time with no stroke penalty with out all the fanfair and messing around. Big deal

Why would you not include him finishing the hole in this video

Ask Phil!! He’d know the best way to make it!! LOLLLL

Look at the dimples. They are callaway's HEX dimples.

i am a member there!

Pardon my French, but that was balls!!!

Marvelous decision from the young Lepricorn.

No way the Jean van de Velde's meltdown didn't cross his mind when he was processing this decision.

I've reached the end of the internet. This was the last video. Thanks!

Hey Rory! Light the candle!

Golf has way too many rules that relieve golfers from their bad shots.

Nothing worse than a downhill lie. I really hate hitting a ball well below my feet. Nice work Rory!

You could tell by his feet placement when he teed off that it was going left, weird for a player of that caliber.

Interesting, Even as good as he ended up hitting it, look how the hanging lie still pushed his ball to the right side of the green.

Woulda been a nice shot to see, but for the ads for other videos mapped atop the footage, which coulda lasted five more seconds, to show those, then...

Dottie suggests he pitches out and that’s the best play, not even 2 minutes later says that pitching out wasn’t viable and the more difficult option. Just lol

To be such a whistle blower this was definitely worth a head scratch

If I’d have dropped it the ball probably wouldn’t have bounced back into the hazard

Lol every tour player drops it like that to be able to place it. It's not rocket science, it's common sense.

4:02 everything ok Dotty?

I was behind the green cheering him on here

Most people would pull that 8 iron 3rd into the creek, with that hanging lie, or shank it into the trees, that's why the decision, for most, was wrong. But its Rory!

Did he ever think about hitting it to the left fairway?

You put up previous videos on Rory’s. last shot that I couldn’t see. Thanks for a good video but terrible ending.

I can't believe he couldn't chip his ball 10 yards onto the fairway for an even better 3rd.

caddies make good golfers great

Golf should be play the lie, no matter where. Just like Shooter McGavin had to do. Play it off of Frankenstein's foot. Water landing? You get an 8. Also 2X par should be the maximum score per hole.

Obviously it worked out fine, but I thought he could easily hit it onto the fairway - with no loss of shot.

Did Rory just hit an 8-iron roughly 200 yards???

I don't understand, why he did not drop the ball on the other side near the fairway. As the creeek is on the left side of the fairway and the ball crossed the penalty area from the right side, dropping on the right side of the penalty area should have been right thing to do, or do I miss something?

Why did he get a chance to replace the ball once he had already placed it?

No wonder golf is ‘dying’ - I’ve played at low h’cap for x40yrs - and always in weekly Comps, but the rules are ridiculously complicated and most players break them without even realising and with no intention to do so. The game is supposed to be FUN and relaxing for us amateurs, but there are far more rules in this PASTIME than at bloody work!

Mark Dusbabek is such a rules official name but dude played in the NFL

What...no mulligan option. LOL

If it’s plus 2 if you tee up in front on the markers couldn’t you tee up on the green

The ball cannot be the same length of a cigar smoke circle while drinking a corona with or without a lime on a friday night before and tuesday first week after the month last sunday winning goal tomorrow can be done without a glue trap or a sand dollar short of a dime. Makes sence if you think about it.

Did he make a bogey on this hole and what about the second hole

I thought caddy is not allowed to be in hazard with bag or is that not a hazard?

Why did Rory drop so close to the red line? I thought he had 2 club lengths from the red line?

I still don’t get why the rules official allows or instructs him to replace the ball (in a better lie) AFTER he has already placed it in a position that is behind the tee peg and where the official was pointing. This to me, made his next shot much easier as the second time he placed it, it was in a spot with less rough around the ball than the first placement. Surely once it had been placed the first time the ball was in play and he has to hit it from there. Almost seems like the rules official gave him an unfair advantage and you could say that was the difference between him winning versus being in a play off.

he flushed that ball he dropped tho

Rory would never thought if that himself.

Love the commentary but we gotta rev up that energy a wee bit lad!

"This came out beautifully. Right at the flag." *Lands 30 yards away

That's why you never go cheap picking a caddy.

Can someone get my man a comb for his hair?

1:13

195 out in the rough... gimme the 8 iron.