April 14, 2025 • 11 mins
"I think this could be his hardest victory ever."
Award-winning golf coach Marcus Wheelhouse was full of praise for Rory McIlroy after Rory narrowly won the Masters this morning.
Marcus spoke to Jason Pine on Sportstalk.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildergrave
from News Talk Zed be well.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
As I say, incredible theater, unbelievable drama. On the last
afternoon at Augusta, As Golf's eighty ninth Masters Tournament was
decided via the opening sudden death playoff hole, overnight leader
Rory McElroy seemed to have everything under control and moved
from his overnight score of twelve under to fourteen under
after ten holes in his final round. But then he
(00:34):
dropped a shot on eleven and then got to thirteen,
where he has left himself the beautiful seashest handle just
eighty six to the hall.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Oh goodness, can't explain it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Couldn't explain that a double bogie on thirteen. He also
bogued fourteen to drop back to ten under, then birdied
fifteen to go back to eleven under. But Justin Rose,
who had started the day seven shots behind Rory mac roy,
had the most extraordinary last eight holes, Carting six birdies
and two bogies. He got to eleven under the last
(01:14):
of his birdies this part on eighteen Rose, how's.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
A part to tie the lead? A chance? Justin Rose?
Low leaders see for our war.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Incredible part from Rose. He was in the clubhouse. Then
at eleven under, McElroy had two holes to play. He
birdied seventeen thanks to this superb approach.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Go and go it di w a shot for recording.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's the crowds run, so he putted them there and
retook a one shot lead. Heading to the last hole,
the eighteenth, he was twelve under, just needed to make
par to win the tournament. Hit a good t shot
but put his second into the bunker. Then played a
terrific third shot out of the bunker to set up
a very makeable four foot part for par and the tournament,
(02:14):
but he missed agonizingly to the left. He made bogey,
dropped back to eleven under and into the playoff with
Justin Rose. They went back to the eighteenth te Both
men got onto the green with their second shots. McElroy
was closer to the hole, so Rose putted first for Bertie.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
The door is open again for McElroy to finish it off.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Rose made his par before McElroy putted for the win.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
The journey is taken to get here for all this history.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
McKay has his masterpiece.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Our first Grand Jacket for Rory McElroy, just the sixth
man to win all four majors and complete a career
Grand Slam. There was a lot of pens up emotion
that just came out on nine eighteen Green and a
moment like that mix all the years and all the
close calls worth it. So that's basically how it played out.
Let's bring in formal world number one ranked amateur professional
tour player for twelve years and now one of our
(03:19):
leading coaches, Marcus Wheelhouse, who was at AUGUSTA. Marcus, thanks
for joining us. Is there anything to match the drama
of the last afternoon like that at a major golf tournament?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Hello Jason. It was pretty Cinderella like that, to be honest.
So I was, you know, I was thinking it would
be it'd be great to see either of those two
went for the various reasons. But but now look to
see Rory one was pretty special.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I'm not quite sure where to start, but can we
start maybe at the end. How on earth would Rory
McElroy have composed himself for a playoff after missing the
part to win it on eighteen the first time?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Well, I just I mean, I just yeah, I'm in
mate with difficulty rather than me. But I think that
you know that that emotion certainly came out us after
he finally did it. But I think he's been he's
been very complated and very he is wording in the media,
has been very about very much about you know, just
that whole keeping the present and not sor of looking
(04:21):
at better boards and everything else. So made it would
have been an absolute huge mountain to climb for him,
because you know, I mean, I just go back to Ponts,
you know last year when when him and Bryson down
the stretch, and you know, he's missed a couple of
sort of pretty fidal put from those last year holes
there at Pineist and unfortunately for he was nervo system.
(04:42):
He'd a couple of times this year as well. So
maybe he certainly had a lot of a lot of
mountains to climb.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
That's just what did you see when he started to
try us strike trouble on his back nine? What did
you see from him during that little stretch where he
where he had a had a he dropped a shot
on eleven double bogue, thirteen bogie, fourteen back to ten
under What did you see during that little stretch that
you know from from.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Royal equably well, I mean he's I mean from a
from you know. I mean, it's pretty hard to fold
him in the way that he strikes a golf for
but there's certainly a certain pattern that seems to come
out when he is unpressurre and when he does fire,
and I mean when you get a body that fires
as fast as he does, it is pretty hard to
(05:27):
think up. And that's you know, where like you know,
that shit on regulation and the seventi SI can hole
where he just left them to the right seems to
be his bogy if you want to call it that,
or his nemesis, and then you know, I just take
it back to seventeen on on even Saturday, you know,
like you see his putting stroke just get very quick,
(05:48):
through the through the ball change paces. Maybe sometimes it's quick,
sometimes it's slow. So I mean, look, everybody's got their thing,
but I mean, look, you can't fold him as a
players and he's amazing, So I don't mean to sound critical,
but yeah, I mean he's just he's constantly trying to
control obviously in emotion. I think this is probably this
would put down has been as the hardest victory. He
(06:10):
hasn't won a major for a number of years, and
he's lost quite a few. He's been polarized in the
media in the last few years with this whole of
you know, sort of you know PGA Tour battle if
you want to call that. So, yeah, there's been a lot.
I think there's been a lot going on. You know,
he's got a divorce in it Rey kindling with his advice,
So there's been a lot going on in Roy's life.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Indeed, Well, yeah, you can understand the emotion at the
end when that part did finally drop. Just on Justin Rose,
he started the day seven shots behind, the most extraordinary
last eight hole six bood. He's in two bogey, he's
got up to eleven under. What did you see from
him today?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Oh? Look, I just think it's amazing. You know, he's
forty I think he's forty four, is me? You know,
he finished second last year in the Open at Troon
and there he just he just keeps on surprising. You know,
really I think I'm not surprising, but just yeah, to
be doing what he's doing, I mean, that's a hell
around that land. And then to Bertie last I mean
(07:10):
I was sitting on eighteen yesterday for probably a good
hour and a half and you know, I mean there
was there was certainly more boges than pars. It's a hole,
you know, and from you get up and do what
he did and under that pressure, knowing you've got to do,
you know, to sort of try and post a score.
No phenomenal stuff from from Rosie as well. I thought
(07:31):
it was a real he could be, you know, should
he did nothing wrong. You know, he should be proud
of himself. He's he sat there and watch his Maitland.
I mean, I'm sure he will have to do one himself,
but you know.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
What I'm saying, of course absolutely And that was clear
at the end as well. And Bryson d Chambeau starting
the day outright second, paired with McElroy Bertie the second
actually to briefly take the lead, but went downhill from
their unhappy final round, shooting three over. Just the day
too big for Bryson today. What did what did you
assess from from him today?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I heard because I'm a little bit out of a
loop with media silence and because you can have phones
or anything in that in the and I've just got back,
but I don't know. I heard something about him being
on the range too the way last night. Was that true?
I don't know. I mean it sounds like to me
(08:21):
his load for the week was pretty high. And and
I think from a from you, from my point of
view as a coach and and explore you. So you
think it's only the amount of energy levels and and
I think you just beat it out. It's you know,
it is it is high energy stuff that you're playing
out and out there for a long time. And and
(08:42):
to me, it sounds like he just almost worked himself.
It's too hard for the week and and just lost energy.
You know. It's it's tough then to be you know,
to try and fight all those emotions and you've got
to be so you know, on top of what your
self talkers and all these different things that sit around
pressure and golf and also the physical side of things
as well, you know, like you is but hard. So yeah,
(09:05):
to me that I don't know, that's my That was
my sort of reflection.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, I'll have to check on that. Hadn't heard that news,
But yeah, it seems like a slightly unusual approach given
given the magnitude of the day. But maybe maybe that's
that's his approach. So Rory's won all four majors now
only the six player to do that. But I say,
this sounds so strange, but only five major season one?
Do we include him as an all time great?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Now? We have to, you know, like kids, Yeah, the amount.
I mean he's one to two players championships, you know,
multiple events, and you in the PJA and been a
world number one multiple times as well. I think we
have to, don't we. Man, he's such a talent and
(09:51):
such as obviously a huge name of the sport now.
So definitely definitely got my vote.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
What's Augusta like?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Doesn't land? Mate, It doesn't land for gofers. I mean,
I'm lucky to be I'm lucky to have been there
eight or nine times. And it's through the years when
I was with Foxy, you and twenty three for the
for the whole week it's made. It's just phenomenal the
way that the golf one is run. You know, I
might be with eight players people now you know hunters
(10:22):
and and you know, just everything is there's not a start.
I turned. It's phenomenal from the experience you have and
the food concessions for the just you know, the way
that the ticketing is run, just everything made. It's it's phenomenal.
Now I'm in the golf course condition. Obviously. He even
knows that you'll never unless you see it and be
(10:43):
it and feel it. You just can't really explain it made.
And we never had a disappointed person that comes, you know, thinks, oh,
I don't think it was going to get Yeah, it's
as I thought. You know, it's never happened. So yeah,
it's it's it's a mating place.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, it's a good description. Marcus, thanks for joining us,
Mike really appreciate you taking the time and enjoy the
receist day over there. Oh thanks Jason, Now, thank you Marcus.
MICUs will has there who was there watching it unfold.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
For more from Sports Talk, listen live to News Talks
B from seven pm weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancy Wildergrave
from News Talk Zed be well.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
As I say, incredible theater, unbelievable drama. On the last
afternoon at Augusta, As Golf's eighty ninth Masters Tournament was
decided via the opening sudden death playoff hole, overnight leader
Rory McElroy seemed to have everything under control and moved
from his overnight score of twelve under to fourteen under
after ten holes in his final round. But then he
(00:34):
dropped a shot on eleven and then got to thirteen,
where he has left himself the beautiful seashest handle just
eighty six to the hall.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Oh goodness, can't explain it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Couldn't explain that a double bogie on thirteen. He also
bogued fourteen to drop back to ten under, then birdied
fifteen to go back to eleven under. But Justin Rose,
who had started the day seven shots behind Rory mac roy,
had the most extraordinary last eight holes, Carting six birdies
and two bogies. He got to eleven under the last
(01:14):
of his birdies this part on eighteen Rose, how's.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
A part to tie the lead? A chance? Justin Rose?
Low leaders see for our war.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Incredible part from Rose. He was in the clubhouse. Then
at eleven under, McElroy had two holes to play. He
birdied seventeen thanks to this superb approach.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Go and go it di w a shot for recording.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's the crowds run, so he putted them there and
retook a one shot lead. Heading to the last hole,
the eighteenth, he was twelve under, just needed to make
par to win the tournament. Hit a good t shot
but put his second into the bunker. Then played a
terrific third shot out of the bunker to set up
a very makeable four foot part for par and the tournament,
(02:14):
but he missed agonizingly to the left. He made bogey,
dropped back to eleven under and into the playoff with
Justin Rose. They went back to the eighteenth te Both
men got onto the green with their second shots. McElroy
was closer to the hole, so Rose putted first for Bertie.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
The door is open again for McElroy to finish it off.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Rose made his par before McElroy putted for the win.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
The journey is taken to get here for all this history.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
McKay has his masterpiece.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Our first Grand Jacket for Rory McElroy, just the sixth
man to win all four majors and complete a career
Grand Slam. There was a lot of pens up emotion
that just came out on nine eighteen Green and a
moment like that mix all the years and all the
close calls worth it. So that's basically how it played out.
Let's bring in formal world number one ranked amateur professional
tour player for twelve years and now one of our
(03:19):
leading coaches, Marcus Wheelhouse, who was at AUGUSTA. Marcus, thanks
for joining us. Is there anything to match the drama
of the last afternoon like that at a major golf tournament?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Hello Jason. It was pretty Cinderella like that, to be honest.
So I was, you know, I was thinking it would
be it'd be great to see either of those two
went for the various reasons. But but now look to
see Rory one was pretty special.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I'm not quite sure where to start, but can we
start maybe at the end. How on earth would Rory
McElroy have composed himself for a playoff after missing the
part to win it on eighteen the first time?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Well, I just I mean, I just yeah, I'm in
mate with difficulty rather than me. But I think that
you know that that emotion certainly came out us after
he finally did it. But I think he's been he's
been very complated and very he is wording in the media,
has been very about very much about you know, just
that whole keeping the present and not sor of looking
(04:21):
at better boards and everything else. So made it would
have been an absolute huge mountain to climb for him,
because you know, I mean, I just go back to Ponts,
you know last year when when him and Bryson down
the stretch, and you know, he's missed a couple of
sort of pretty fidal put from those last year holes
there at Pineist and unfortunately for he was nervo system.
(04:42):
He'd a couple of times this year as well. So
maybe he certainly had a lot of a lot of
mountains to climb.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
That's just what did you see when he started to
try us strike trouble on his back nine? What did
you see from him during that little stretch where he
where he had a had a he dropped a shot
on eleven double bogue, thirteen bogie, fourteen back to ten
under What did you see during that little stretch that
you know from from.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Royal equably well, I mean he's I mean from a
from you know. I mean, it's pretty hard to fold
him in the way that he strikes a golf for
but there's certainly a certain pattern that seems to come
out when he is unpressurre and when he does fire,
and I mean when you get a body that fires
as fast as he does, it is pretty hard to
(05:27):
think up. And that's you know, where like you know,
that shit on regulation and the seventi SI can hole
where he just left them to the right seems to
be his bogy if you want to call it that,
or his nemesis, and then you know, I just take
it back to seventeen on on even Saturday, you know,
like you see his putting stroke just get very quick,
(05:48):
through the through the ball change paces. Maybe sometimes it's quick,
sometimes it's slow. So I mean, look, everybody's got their thing,
but I mean, look, you can't fold him as a
players and he's amazing, So I don't mean to sound critical,
but yeah, I mean he's just he's constantly trying to
control obviously in emotion. I think this is probably this
would put down has been as the hardest victory. He
(06:10):
hasn't won a major for a number of years, and
he's lost quite a few. He's been polarized in the
media in the last few years with this whole of
you know, sort of you know PGA Tour battle if
you want to call that. So, yeah, there's been a lot.
I think there's been a lot going on. You know,
he's got a divorce in it Rey kindling with his advice,
So there's been a lot going on in Roy's life.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Indeed, Well, yeah, you can understand the emotion at the
end when that part did finally drop. Just on Justin Rose,
he started the day seven shots behind, the most extraordinary
last eight hole six bood. He's in two bogey, he's
got up to eleven under. What did you see from
him today?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Oh? Look, I just think it's amazing. You know, he's
forty I think he's forty four, is me? You know,
he finished second last year in the Open at Troon
and there he just he just keeps on surprising. You know,
really I think I'm not surprising, but just yeah, to
be doing what he's doing, I mean, that's a hell
around that land. And then to Bertie last I mean
(07:10):
I was sitting on eighteen yesterday for probably a good
hour and a half and you know, I mean there
was there was certainly more boges than pars. It's a hole,
you know, and from you get up and do what
he did and under that pressure, knowing you've got to do,
you know, to sort of try and post a score.
No phenomenal stuff from from Rosie as well. I thought
(07:31):
it was a real he could be, you know, should
he did nothing wrong. You know, he should be proud
of himself. He's he sat there and watch his Maitland.
I mean, I'm sure he will have to do one himself,
but you know.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
What I'm saying, of course absolutely And that was clear
at the end as well. And Bryson d Chambeau starting
the day outright second, paired with McElroy Bertie the second
actually to briefly take the lead, but went downhill from
their unhappy final round, shooting three over. Just the day
too big for Bryson today. What did what did you
assess from from him today?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I heard because I'm a little bit out of a
loop with media silence and because you can have phones
or anything in that in the and I've just got back,
but I don't know. I heard something about him being
on the range too the way last night. Was that true?
I don't know. I mean it sounds like to me
(08:21):
his load for the week was pretty high. And and
I think from a from you, from my point of
view as a coach and and explore you. So you
think it's only the amount of energy levels and and
I think you just beat it out. It's you know,
it is it is high energy stuff that you're playing
out and out there for a long time. And and
(08:42):
to me, it sounds like he just almost worked himself.
It's too hard for the week and and just lost energy.
You know. It's it's tough then to be you know,
to try and fight all those emotions and you've got
to be so you know, on top of what your
self talkers and all these different things that sit around
pressure and golf and also the physical side of things
as well, you know, like you is but hard. So yeah,
(09:05):
to me that I don't know, that's my That was
my sort of reflection.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, I'll have to check on that. Hadn't heard that news,
But yeah, it seems like a slightly unusual approach given
given the magnitude of the day. But maybe maybe that's
that's his approach. So Rory's won all four majors now
only the six player to do that. But I say,
this sounds so strange, but only five major season one?
Do we include him as an all time great?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Now? We have to, you know, like kids, Yeah, the amount.
I mean he's one to two players championships, you know,
multiple events, and you in the PJA and been a
world number one multiple times as well. I think we
have to, don't we. Man, he's such a talent and
(09:51):
such as obviously a huge name of the sport now.
So definitely definitely got my vote.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
What's Augusta like?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Doesn't land? Mate, It doesn't land for gofers. I mean,
I'm lucky to be I'm lucky to have been there
eight or nine times. And it's through the years when
I was with Foxy, you and twenty three for the
for the whole week it's made. It's just phenomenal the
way that the golf one is run. You know, I
might be with eight players people now you know hunters
(10:22):
and and you know, just everything is there's not a start.
I turned. It's phenomenal from the experience you have and
the food concessions for the just you know, the way
that the ticketing is run, just everything made. It's it's phenomenal.
Now I'm in the golf course condition. Obviously. He even
knows that you'll never unless you see it and be
(10:43):
it and feel it. You just can't really explain it made.
And we never had a disappointed person that comes, you know, thinks, oh,
I don't think it was going to get Yeah, it's
as I thought. You know, it's never happened. So yeah,
it's it's it's a mating place.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, it's a good description. Marcus, thanks for joining us,
Mike really appreciate you taking the time and enjoy the
receist day over there. Oh thanks Jason, Now, thank you Marcus.
MICUs will has there who was there watching it unfold.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
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B from seven pm weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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