Ronan O'Gara: Time to channel Rory's monster mentality for that bloody breakthrough
SCRAPS OF POSITIVITY: La Rochelle's Teddy Thomas dejected after defeat to Munster last time out. Pic: INPHO/Ben Brady
I watched on as Rory McIlroy stood over a putt on the 18th green at Augusta last Sunday and wondered about the flow of things. Are there similarities to where Rory was, back in the same place where he’d made a balls of things not 20 minutes earlier and us here heading back to Stade Marcel Deflandre on Saturday? There are…but there aren’t too.
You can only imagine the flip side of it if Rory hadn’t done what he did on that playoff hole. Because after watching what happened on the 18th in regulation I just thought ‘oh my god’. It would have been further copper-fastened that this is him, another fine mental meltdown. It was there to win and it was gone. Rory McIlroy, right? But that’s the thing, with these kind of guys, Steph Curry or Kobe Bryant before him. Everyone thinks they’re born stars. It’s only when you dig down, you understand the sacrifices and the dog work that goes into. Talent alone doesn’t work. The monster mentality is what brings it together.
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