Colin Sheridan: Green Jacket not the panacea we thought it would be for Rory McIlroy 

Oakmont, a penance of a course that offered little by way of forgiveness to anybody, especially the geniuses in the field, had reduced him to a state of fatigue-induced petulance we have seen many times before.

Rory McIlroy reacts after missing a putt on the eighth hole during the third round of the U.S. Open. Pic: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

“We met when we were almost young.”

- Leonard Cohen, So Long Marianne