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Kevin Casey

@KevinCaseyGC

Sr. Researcher at NBC

انضم Aralık 2009
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Kevin Casey@KevinCaseyGC·
@GeneFrenette Totally agreed on that, on same page. Hypothetical, but given 4 majors a year, Vardon would have likely won so many more than his 7. He was so dominant. Of course you factor in weaker fields, easier to win to what Vardon's number could have been. As I said, cuts both ways.
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Eugene Frenette
Eugene Frenette@GeneFrenette·
@KevinCaseyGC Agreed, but the gap in competition is absolutely massive. Only 5-10 players were truly capable of winning the Open during Harry’s time. Rory has around 25-30 every major
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Shane Ryan
Shane Ryan@ShaneRyanHere·
Is Rory now the greatest European golfer ever?
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Kevin Casey@KevinCaseyGC·
@MMcEwanGolf It's going to be such a farce that they contest the 2027 Masters at Augusta National. Because Rory has won there the last two times. Such an unfair advantage!
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Michael McEwan
Michael McEwan@MMcEwanGolf·
This Rory / “unfair advantage” narrative really is some intellectually anaemic, straw-clutchy, flat Earth bollocks.
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Kevin Casey@KevinCaseyGC·
@acaseofthegolf1 Everyone's talking about Rory winning back-to-back Masters and blah blah blah ... but he's also the Rory without an Olympic medal. 🤷‍♀️
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Monday Q Info
Monday Q Info@acaseofthegolf1·
A certain Slovak making his Champions Tour debut this week. (Henrik Stenson also)
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Kevin Casey@KevinCaseyGC·
Justin Rose with a lot to rue from yesterday and a par on the 71st would have only kept him in the fight, still needed more to win. But .. you could argue the 17th hole has cost him four Green Jackets. The four times he was right there down the stretch: Three bogeys, one double.
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Kevin Casey@KevinCaseyGC·
@GeneFrenette He indeed did not. But he also only played basically 1 major per year, it was the one least suited to his game and he still won it 6 times. So it cuts both ways. There’s no counting how many more majors Vardon may have won with access to 4 per year. Again, subjective!
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Dave Moore
Dave Moore@pagolfhistorian·
@KevinCaseyGC It’s such a pivotal championship and it’s very rarely discussed.
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Dave Moore
Dave Moore@pagolfhistorian·
Best European of all-time? Hard to argue otherwise. Maybe Vardon, maybe Faldo, but I think it’s Rory…
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Kevin Casey@KevinCaseyGC·
@pagolfhistorian So true! The 1920 U.S. Open is the most devastated I am about a sporting result I was not alive for haha. It makes me so sad reading about a 50-year-old Vardon playing his last 7 in 7 over to lose by one.
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Dave Moore
Dave Moore@pagolfhistorian·
@KevinCaseyGC May win both the 1913 and the 1920 U.S. Opens had it not been for that putting tremor from the TB. I’m with you, it’s a fascinating question.
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Kevin Casey@KevinCaseyGC·
@pagolfhistorian Absolutely! And then the TB adds another complication of how much do I factor in the long-lasting effects of that he had in with him hypothetically playing 4 majors a year and also what it did to his putting. 😂
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Dave Moore
Dave Moore@pagolfhistorian·
@KevinCaseyGC I agree. And imagine what he could have done had he not been sidelined with TB for a few years.
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Kevin Casey@KevinCaseyGC·
As a player, Rory McIlroy really is remarkably like Greg Norman at the core. The driving, the immense talent and the fragility. Rory has like 10 percent more fight though, and way less bad luck. Which adds up to more success.
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Kevin Casey@KevinCaseyGC·
So Happy for Rory! The best modern European debate goes further in his favor vs Seve and Faldo. Best European of all-time, well … Harry Vardon is wildly undervalued. But it’s a fun discussion.
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Kevin Casey@KevinCaseyGC·
Scottie Scheffler still in this thing and looking to win his 5th major at age 29. On that note… Here is the full list of players to win 5+ men’s professional majors before age 30: Tiger Woods Jack Nicklaus Bobby Jones
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Kevin Casey@KevinCaseyGC·
Cameron Young fun parallel if he wins... Wake Forest product, 28 years old. Arnold Palmer: Wake Forest product, 28 years old when he won his 1st Masters in 1958. Arnie charged into a share of the 54-hole lead by matching the low score of Round 3. Just as Cam did today.
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Kevin Casey@KevinCaseyGC·
Rory's opening 67 ... Feel like a lot of people are being a bit too quick to pronounce the demons totally gone, everything is great. Tournaments are so long, it's one round. Great start, but Rory is such a fun guy to see win that emotion trumps logic sometimes.
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Kevin Casey@KevinCaseyGC·
Still a ways off from this but because of the large margin right now... Tiger Woods is the only player ever to win 3 *different* men's majors by 5+ shots. Rory McIlroy would join him if he wins by 5+ this week.
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