New Hotshot Takes Tiger At Masters' Final Round

New Hotshot Takes Tiger At Masters' Final Round

He's a 21-year-old young man who's playing with the patience and golf maturity of someone twice his age. He's been talked about as the next big thing for a couple of years. Some are wondering if he's the next Tiger Woods. If McIlroy wins today, he'll be the second youngest Masters winner. Tiger was the youngest back in '97. That's a tall order to have that Choose Good Golf Grip For Nice Control comparison made. But certainly Rory McIlroy shares with Woods that fanatical devotion to the game early on. Rory's mom tells the story of when Rory was 11, his coach told him to change his grip on a golf club. And mom one night checked in on Rory in bed. He was asleep, but his arms were outside the blanket and his hands forming the grip his coach wanted. One golf writer said this week at Augusta that for the first time in a while Tiger Woods looked like he was playing golf instead of giving himself on-course lessons, but the results aren't there yet. When - and everyone expects it to be when - when the results come, when it all clicks for him, it's going to be, you know, fantastic to watch him to do serious battle with McIlroy and some of the other 20-somethings who are really heralding a youth movement in the game. Going into today's final round, it's the first time in the history of the Masters - that's a 75-year history - that there's not an American in the top five. There are lots of great U.S. golfers. I don't think it's time to panic. But, yes, golf has become more global over the years. For some countries that haven't been that avid about it, golf is coming back to the Olympics in 2016 and countries around the world have taken notice and are ramping up their involvement and their development in the sport. Because, Liane, every country loves Olympic medals.