Kevin Casey

If Greg Norman and I were outside on a rainy day and Norman told me it was raining, I would immediately go check with two other people to make sure it was raining.

Alister Mackenzie's best design.😊

@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.

@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

Is Rory now the greatest European golfer ever?

@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!

This Rory / “unfair advantage” narrative really is some intellectually anaemic, straw-clutchy, flat Earth bollocks.

@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. 🤷‍♀️

@KevinCaseyGC Well said.

A certain Slovak making his Champions Tour debut this week. (Henrik Stenson also)

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.

@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!

@KevinCaseyGC @ShaneRyanHere Harry didn’t have near the competition as the modern golfers.

Rahm’s year being crossed out considering his current situation with the DP World Tour … kind of funny.

@pagolfhistorian Amen.

@KevinCaseyGC It’s such a pivotal championship and it’s very rarely discussed.

Best European of all-time? Hard to argue otherwise. Maybe Vardon, maybe Faldo, but I think it’s Rory…

@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.

@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.

@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. 😂

@KevinCaseyGC I agree. And imagine what he could have done had he not been sidelined with TB for a few years.

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.

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.

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

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.

@_kenwunsch @PeteHaileyNBCS @OldTakesExposed Hahaha all good. And the Rory experience, the opposite today. 🤣

@KevinCaseyGC @PeteHaileyNBCS @OldTakesExposed Haha it was for Pete, but respect. The guy played incredible

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.

@_kenwunsch @PeteHaileyNBCS @OldTakesExposed Already called myself out, big man.

@PeteHaileyNBCS @KevinCaseyGC @OldTakesExposed

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.