Rory McIlroy is as talented as Tiger Woods, contends Geoff Ogilvy
Tiger Woods is one of the two best golfers to ever walk the planet. So how does someone consider Rory McIlroy in his stratosphere?
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Kyle Porter
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Geoff Ogilvy has been pressing the "Rory McIlroy is sort of on Tiger Woods' level when it comes to pure talent" narrative for a while now.
"Rory's shots make the best noise, more flush even than Tiger's at his best," Ogilvy told Golf Digest last year.
Ogilvy said much of the same to Alan Shipnuck of Golf.com recently in this story about Woods. Although he was complimenting Woods in a way by praising McIlroy.
"[Tiger] epitomizes a power in the universe that we don't understand," Ogilvy told Golf.com. "He did stuff that science, common sense and golf history can't explain. The guy was incredible in every way, but Ernie Els was just as good physically as he was, Greg Norman was just as good physically, Rory McIlroy is too.
"There are hundreds of guys who are, really, but why is Tiger the guy who won every time? How did he make every putt, how did he always pull off the shot? We don't get how he did it, and we want to know why he lost it and where it's gone and why he can't get it back."
I'm not sure about "hundreds of guys," but the point remains that Woods has peers when it comes to physical talent. However, he's peerless when it comes to his mind (or he was). He's the best ever when it comes to being impermeable.
And that was Ogilvy's original point. The fact that other golfers could be considered as talented as Woods and yet Woods has won so much more than his peers points to the strength of his mental game throughout that prolific career.
